rallonger

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ allonger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒe/

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Verb

rallonger

1. 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	simple	rallonger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rallongeant /ʁa.lɔ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	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/
	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
	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).

Further reading

• “rallonger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.