rallonger

French

Etymology

From r- ‎ allonger.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒe/
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Verb

rallonger

to lengthen (to make longer)

Conjugation

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

infinitive	compound	avoir past participle
infinitive	simple	rallonger
present participle or gerund¹	simple	rallongeant /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		rallongé /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rallonge /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	rallonges /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	rallonge /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	rallongeons /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/	rallongez /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒe/	rallongent /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	rallongeais /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɛ/	rallongeais /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɛ/	rallongeait /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɛ/	rallongions /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	rallongiez /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒje/	rallongeaient /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic²	rallongeai /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒe/	rallongeas /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒa/	rallongea /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒa/	rallongeâmes /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒam/	rallongeâtes /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒat/	rallongèrent /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	rallongerai /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/	rallongeras /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/	rallongera /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/	rallongerons /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	rallongerez /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/	rallongeront /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rallongerais /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	rallongerais /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	rallongerait /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	rallongerions /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	rallongeriez /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	rallongeraient /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ.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	rallonge /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	rallonges /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	rallonge /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	rallongions /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	rallongiez /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒje/	rallongent /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	rallongeasse /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒas/	rallongeasses /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒas/	rallongeât /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒa/	rallongeassions /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	rallongeassiez /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒa.sje/	rallongeassent /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	rallonge /ʁa.lɔ̃ʒ/	—	rallongeons /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/	rallongez /ʁa.lɔ̃.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).