longer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɔŋ.ɡɚ/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈlɑŋ.ɡɚ/
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Etymology 1
From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”).
Adjective
longer
Adverb
longer
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
longer (plural longers)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔ̃.ʒe/
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Verb
longer
- to walk along, run along
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written longe- 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 longer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | longer | avoir longé | |||||
| gerund | en longeant | en ayant longé | |||||
| present participle | longeant /lɔ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | longé /lɔ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
longes /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
longeons /lɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
longez /lɔ̃.ʒe/ |
longent /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | longeais /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ |
longeais /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ |
longeait /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ |
longions /lɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
longiez /lɔ̃.ʒje/ |
longeaient /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | longeai /lɔ̃.ʒe/ |
longeas /lɔ̃.ʒa/ |
longea /lɔ̃.ʒa/ |
longeâmes /lɔ̃.ʒam/ |
longeâtes /lɔ̃.ʒat/ |
longèrent /lɔ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | longerai /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
longeras /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
longera /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
longerons /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
longerez /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
longeront /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | longerais /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
longerais /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
longerait /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
longerions /lɔ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
longeriez /lɔ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
longeraient /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
longes /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
longions /lɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
longiez /lɔ̃.ʒje/ |
longent /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect1 | longeasse /lɔ̃.ʒas/ |
longeasses /lɔ̃.ʒas/ |
longeât /lɔ̃.ʒa/ |
longeassions /lɔ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
longeassiez /lɔ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
longeassent /lɔ̃.ʒas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
— | longeons /lɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
longez /lɔ̃.ʒe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
See also
Further reading
- “longer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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