transiger

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin transigō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/

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Verb

transiger

1. to compromise

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written transige- 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 transiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transiger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transigeant /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transigé /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	transiges /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	transigeons /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɔ̃/	transigez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/	transigent /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/
	imperfect	transigeais /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/	transigeais /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/	transigeait /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/	transigions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒjɔ̃/	transigiez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒje/	transigeaient /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	transigeai /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/	transigeas /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa/	transigea /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa/	transigeâmes /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒam/	transigeâtes /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒat/	transigèrent /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛʁ/
	future	transigerai /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁe/	transigeras /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁa/	transigera /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁa/	transigerons /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɔ̃/	transigerez /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁe/	transigeront /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transigerais /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɛ/	transigerais /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɛ/	transigerait /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɛ/	transigerions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	transigeriez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒə.ʁje/	transigeraient /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.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	transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	transiges /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	transigions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒjɔ̃/	transigiez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒje/	transigent /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/
	imperfect2	transigeasse /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒas/	transigeasses /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒas/	transigeât /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa/	transigeassions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	transigeassiez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa.sje/	transigeassent /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/	—	transigeons /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɔ̃/	transigez /tʁɑ̃.zi.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).

Derived terms

• intransigeant

Related terms

• transaction

Further reading

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