rédiger
French
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin redigere.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editrédiger
- (transitive) to review and correct for mistakes in content, layout and style
- (transitive) to compose
Conjugation
editThis is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written rédige- 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 rédiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rédiger | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | rédigeant /ʁe.di.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | rédigé /ʁe.di.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | rédige /ʁe.diʒ/ |
rédiges /ʁe.diʒ/ |
rédige /ʁe.diʒ/ |
rédigeons /ʁe.di.ʒɔ̃/ |
rédigez /ʁe.di.ʒe/ |
rédigent /ʁe.diʒ/ |
imperfect | rédigeais /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/ |
rédigeais /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/ |
rédigeait /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/ |
rédigions /ʁe.di.ʒjɔ̃/ |
rédigiez /ʁe.di.ʒje/ |
rédigeaient /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | rédigeai /ʁe.di.ʒe/ |
rédigeas /ʁe.di.ʒa/ |
rédigea /ʁe.di.ʒa/ |
rédigeâmes /ʁe.di.ʒam/ |
rédigeâtes /ʁe.di.ʒat/ |
rédigèrent /ʁe.di.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | rédigerai /ʁe.diʒ.ʁe/ |
rédigeras /ʁe.diʒ.ʁa/ |
rédigera /ʁe.diʒ.ʁa/ |
rédigerons /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
rédigerez /ʁe.diʒ.ʁe/ |
rédigeront /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | rédigerais /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɛ/ |
rédigerais /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɛ/ |
rédigerait /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɛ/ |
rédigerions /ʁe.di.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rédigeriez /ʁe.di.ʒə.ʁje/ |
rédigeraient /ʁe.diʒ.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 | rédige /ʁe.diʒ/ |
rédiges /ʁe.diʒ/ |
rédige /ʁe.diʒ/ |
rédigions /ʁe.di.ʒjɔ̃/ |
rédigiez /ʁe.di.ʒje/ |
rédigent /ʁe.diʒ/ |
imperfect2 | rédigeasse /ʁe.di.ʒas/ |
rédigeasses /ʁe.di.ʒas/ |
rédigeât /ʁe.di.ʒa/ |
rédigeassions /ʁe.di.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
rédigeassiez /ʁe.di.ʒa.sje/ |
rédigeassent /ʁe.di.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rédige /ʁe.diʒ/ |
— | rédigeons /ʁe.di.ʒɔ̃/ |
rédigez /ʁe.di.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Descendants
edit- → German: redigieren
Further reading
edit- “rédiger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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