suggérer

French

Etymology

From the Latin suggerere, present active infinitive form of suggerō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/
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Verb

suggérer

to suggest, propose
Elles suggéraient une démonstration de maquillage.
They suggested a cosmetic makeover.
to evoke, suggest
Son attitude suggère une dépression nerveuse imminente.
His attitude suggests an imminent nervous breakdown.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written suggérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written suggèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of suggérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		suggérer			avoir suggéré
gerund		en suggérant			en ayant suggéré
present participle		suggérant /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɑ̃/
past participle		suggéré /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggères /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggérons /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/	suggérez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/	suggèrent /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/
	imperfect	suggérais /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/	suggérais /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/	suggérait /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/	suggérions /syɡ.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/	suggériez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁje/	suggéraient /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/
	past historic¹	suggérai /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/	suggéras /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa/	suggéra /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa/	suggérâmes /syɡ.ʒe.ʁam/	suggérâtes /syɡ.ʒe.ʁat/	suggérèrent /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛʁ/
	future	suggèrerai or suggérerai /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/	suggèreras or suggéreras /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/	suggèrera or suggérera /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/	suggèrerons or suggérerons /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	suggèrerez or suggérerez /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/	suggèreront or suggéreront /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suggèrerais or suggérerais /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suggèrerais or suggérerais /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suggèrerait or suggérerait /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suggèrerions or suggérerions /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	suggèreriez or suggéreriez /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁje/	suggèreraient or suggéreraient /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.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	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggères /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggérions /syɡ.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/	suggériez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁje/	suggèrent /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	suggérasse /syɡ.ʒe.ʁas/	suggérasses /syɡ.ʒe.ʁas/	suggérât /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa/	suggérassions /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	suggérassiez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa.sje/	suggérassent /syɡ.ʒe.ʁas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	—	suggérons /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/	suggérez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/	—
¹literary tenses