adjuger

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ajugier, inherited from Latin adiūdicāre. The d was reintroduced.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒy.ʒe/

• Audio:

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Verb

adjuger

1. to auction
2. to adjudicate
3. (pronominal, s'adjuger) to take (all for oneself), to grant (oneself) the prerogative to

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	adjuger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adjugeant /a.dʒy.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adjugé /a.dʒy.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/	adjuges /a.dʒyʒ/	adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/	adjugeons /a.dʒy.ʒɔ̃/	adjugez /a.dʒy.ʒe/	adjugent /a.dʒyʒ/
	imperfect	adjugeais /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/	adjugeais /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/	adjugeait /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/	adjugions /a.dʒy.ʒjɔ̃/	adjugiez /a.dʒy.ʒje/	adjugeaient /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	adjugeai /a.dʒy.ʒe/	adjugeas /a.dʒy.ʒa/	adjugea /a.dʒy.ʒa/	adjugeâmes /a.dʒy.ʒam/	adjugeâtes /a.dʒy.ʒat/	adjugèrent /a.dʒy.ʒɛʁ/
	future	adjugerai /a.dʒyʒ.ʁe/	adjugeras /a.dʒyʒ.ʁa/	adjugera /a.dʒyʒ.ʁa/	adjugerons /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɔ̃/	adjugerez /a.dʒyʒ.ʁe/	adjugeront /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adjugerais /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/	adjugerais /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/	adjugerait /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/	adjugerions /a.dʒy.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	adjugeriez /a.dʒy.ʒə.ʁje/	adjugeraient /a.dʒyʒ.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	adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/	adjuges /a.dʒyʒ/	adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/	adjugions /a.dʒy.ʒjɔ̃/	adjugiez /a.dʒy.ʒje/	adjugent /a.dʒyʒ/
	imperfect2	adjugeasse /a.dʒy.ʒas/	adjugeasses /a.dʒy.ʒas/	adjugeât /a.dʒy.ʒa/	adjugeassions /a.dʒy.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	adjugeassiez /a.dʒy.ʒa.sje/	adjugeassent /a.dʒy.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/	—	adjugeons /a.dʒy.ʒɔ̃/	adjugez /a.dʒy.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

• adjudicataire
• adjudication

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

adjuger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adjugō