mitiger

French

Etymology

From Old French mitiguer, borrowed from Latin mītigāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

mitiger

1. (dated) to deacidify (make less acidic)
2. (dated) to mitigate, soften

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mitige- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of mitiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mitiger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mitigeant /mi.ti.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mitigé /mi.ti.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mitige /mi.tiʒ/	mitiges /mi.tiʒ/	mitige /mi.tiʒ/	mitigeons /mi.ti.ʒɔ̃/	mitigez /mi.ti.ʒe/	mitigent /mi.tiʒ/
	imperfect	mitigeais /mi.ti.ʒɛ/	mitigeais /mi.ti.ʒɛ/	mitigeait /mi.ti.ʒɛ/	mitigions /mi.ti.ʒjɔ̃/	mitigiez /mi.ti.ʒje/	mitigeaient /mi.ti.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	mitigeai /mi.ti.ʒe/	mitigeas /mi.ti.ʒa/	mitigea /mi.ti.ʒa/	mitigeâmes /mi.ti.ʒam/	mitigeâtes /mi.ti.ʒat/	mitigèrent /mi.ti.ʒɛʁ/
	future	mitigerai /mi.tiʒ.ʁe/	mitigeras /mi.tiʒ.ʁa/	mitigera /mi.tiʒ.ʁa/	mitigerons /mi.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/	mitigerez /mi.tiʒ.ʁe/	mitigeront /mi.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mitigerais /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	mitigerais /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	mitigerait /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	mitigerions /mi.ti.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	mitigeriez /mi.ti.ʒə.ʁje/	mitigeraient /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	mitige /mi.tiʒ/	mitiges /mi.tiʒ/	mitige /mi.tiʒ/	mitigions /mi.ti.ʒjɔ̃/	mitigiez /mi.ti.ʒje/	mitigent /mi.tiʒ/
	imperfect2	mitigeasse /mi.ti.ʒas/	mitigeasses /mi.ti.ʒas/	mitigeât /mi.ti.ʒa/	mitigeassions /mi.ti.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	mitigeassiez /mi.ti.ʒa.sje/	mitigeassent /mi.ti.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mitige /mi.tiʒ/	—	mitigeons /mi.ti.ʒɔ̃/	mitigez /mi.ti.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• mitigation

Further reading

• “mitiger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

mītiger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of mītigō