protagoniser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.ze/

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Verb

protagoniser

1. (transitive) to star in; to be the protagonist of

Conjugation

Conjugation of protagoniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	protagoniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	protagonisant /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		protagonisé /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	protagonise /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	protagonises /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	protagonise /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	protagonisons /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	protagonisez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.ze/	protagonisent /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/
	imperfect	protagonisais /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɛ/	protagonisais /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɛ/	protagonisait /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɛ/	protagonisions /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	protagonisiez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zje/	protagonisaient /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	protagonisai /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.ze/	protagonisas /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.za/	protagonisa /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.za/	protagonisâmes /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zam/	protagonisâtes /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zat/	protagonisèrent /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	protagoniserai /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁe/	protagoniseras /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁa/	protagonisera /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁa/	protagoniserons /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/	protagoniserez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁe/	protagoniseront /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	protagoniserais /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	protagoniserais /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	protagoniserait /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	protagoniserions /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	protagoniseriez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zə.ʁje/	protagoniseraient /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz.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	protagonise /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	protagonises /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	protagonise /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	protagonisions /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	protagonisiez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zje/	protagonisent /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/
	imperfect2	protagonisasse /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zas/	protagonisasses /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zas/	protagonisât /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.za/	protagonisassions /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	protagonisassiez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.za.sje/	protagonisassent /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	protagonise /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.niz/	—	protagonisons /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	protagonisez /pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.ni.ze/	—
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

• protagoniste