infliger
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Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fli.ʒe/
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Conjugation
    
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written inflige- 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 infliger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | infliger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | infligeant /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɑ̃/  | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | infligé /ɛ̃.fli.ʒe/  | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses)  | 
present | inflige /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
infliges /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
inflige /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
infligeons /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɔ̃/  | 
infligez /ɛ̃.fli.ʒe/  | 
infligent /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
| imperfect | infligeais /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɛ/  | 
infligeais /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɛ/  | 
infligeait /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɛ/  | 
infligions /ɛ̃.fli.ʒjɔ̃/  | 
infligiez /ɛ̃.fli.ʒje/  | 
infligeaient /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɛ/  | |
| past historic2 | infligeai /ɛ̃.fli.ʒe/  | 
infligeas /ɛ̃.fli.ʒa/  | 
infligea /ɛ̃.fli.ʒa/  | 
infligeâmes /ɛ̃.fli.ʒam/  | 
infligeâtes /ɛ̃.fli.ʒat/  | 
infligèrent /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɛʁ/  | |
| future | infligerai /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁe/  | 
infligeras /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁa/  | 
infligera /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁa/  | 
infligerons /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁɔ̃/  | 
infligerez /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁe/  | 
infligeront /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁɔ̃/  | |
| conditional | infligerais /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁɛ/  | 
infligerais /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁɛ/  | 
infligerait /ɛ̃.fliʒ.ʁɛ/  | 
infligerions /ɛ̃.fli.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
infligeriez /ɛ̃.fli.ʒə.ʁje/  | 
infligeraient /ɛ̃.fliʒ.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 | inflige /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
infliges /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
inflige /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
infligions /ɛ̃.fli.ʒjɔ̃/  | 
infligiez /ɛ̃.fli.ʒje/  | 
infligent /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
| imperfect2 | infligeasse /ɛ̃.fli.ʒas/  | 
infligeasses /ɛ̃.fli.ʒas/  | 
infligeât /ɛ̃.fli.ʒa/  | 
infligeassions /ɛ̃.fli.ʒa.sjɔ̃/  | 
infligeassiez /ɛ̃.fli.ʒa.sje/  | 
infligeassent /ɛ̃.fli.ʒas/  | |
| (compound tenses)  | 
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | inflige /ɛ̃.fliʒ/  | 
— | infligeons /ɛ̃.fli.ʒɔ̃/  | 
infligez /ɛ̃.fli.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).  | |||||||
Related terms
    
Further reading
    
- “infliger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
 
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