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paysager
paysager
French
Adjective
paysager m (feminine singular paysagère, masculine plural paysagers, feminine plural paysagères)
- (attributive) landscape
- (attributive) countryside; country
Derived terms
- jardin paysager
Verb
paysager
- to do landscaping; to landscape
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written paysage- 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 paysager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | paysager | avoir paysagé | |||||
| gerund | en paysageant | en ayant paysagé | |||||
| present participle | paysageant /pɛj.za.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | paysagé /pɛj.za.ʒe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | paysage /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
paysages /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
paysage /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
paysageons /pɛj.za.ʒɔ̃/ |
paysagez /pɛj.za.ʒe/ |
paysagent /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
| imperfect | paysageais /pɛj.za.ʒɛ/ |
paysageais /pɛj.za.ʒɛ/ |
paysageait /pɛj.za.ʒɛ/ |
paysagions /pɛj.za.ʒjɔ̃/ |
paysagiez /pɛj.za.ʒje/ |
paysageaient /pɛj.za.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | paysageai /pɛj.za.ʒe/ |
paysageas /pɛj.za.ʒa/ |
paysagea /pɛj.za.ʒa/ |
paysageâmes /pɛj.za.ʒam/ |
paysageâtes /pɛj.za.ʒat/ |
paysagèrent /pɛj.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | paysagerai /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁe/ |
paysageras /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁa/ |
paysagera /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁa/ |
paysagerons /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
paysagerez /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁe/ |
paysageront /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | paysagerais /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
paysagerais /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
paysagerait /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
paysagerions /pɛj.za.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
paysageriez /pɛj.za.ʒə.ʁje/ |
paysageraient /pɛj.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | paysage /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
paysages /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
paysage /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
paysagions /pɛj.za.ʒjɔ̃/ |
paysagiez /pɛj.za.ʒje/ |
paysagent /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
paysageasse /pɛj.za.ʒas/ |
paysageasses /pɛj.za.ʒas/ |
paysageât /pɛj.za.ʒa/ |
paysageassions /pɛj.za.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
paysageassiez /pɛj.za.ʒa.sje/ |
paysageassent /pɛj.za.ʒas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | paysage /pɛj.zaʒ/ |
— | paysageons /pɛj.za.ʒɔ̃/ |
paysagez /pɛj.za.ʒe/ |
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