héberger

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French herbergier, from Old High German heribergan, from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army camp, shelter”). Related to German beherbergen, English harbour.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /e.bɛʁ.ʒe/

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Verb

héberger

1. to house, accommodate

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	héberger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hébergeant /e.bɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hébergé /e.bɛʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	héberge /e.bɛʁʒ/	héberges /e.bɛʁʒ/	héberge /e.bɛʁʒ/	hébergeons /e.bɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	hébergez /e.bɛʁ.ʒe/	hébergent /e.bɛʁʒ/
	imperfect	hébergeais /e.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/	hébergeais /e.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/	hébergeait /e.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/	hébergions /e.bɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	hébergiez /e.bɛʁ.ʒje/	hébergeaient /e.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	hébergeai /e.bɛʁ.ʒe/	hébergeas /e.bɛʁ.ʒa/	hébergea /e.bɛʁ.ʒa/	hébergeâmes /e.bɛʁ.ʒam/	hébergeâtes /e.bɛʁ.ʒat/	hébergèrent /e.bɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	hébergerai /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	hébergeras /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	hébergera /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	hébergerons /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	hébergerez /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	hébergeront /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hébergerais /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	hébergerais /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	hébergerait /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	hébergerions /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	hébergeriez /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	hébergeraient /e.bɛʁ.ʒə.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	héberge /e.bɛʁʒ/	héberges /e.bɛʁʒ/	héberge /e.bɛʁʒ/	hébergions /e.bɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	hébergiez /e.bɛʁ.ʒje/	hébergent /e.bɛʁʒ/
	imperfect2	hébergeasse /e.bɛʁ.ʒas/	hébergeasses /e.bɛʁ.ʒas/	hébergeât /e.bɛʁ.ʒa/	hébergeassions /e.bɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	hébergeassiez /e.bɛʁ.ʒa.sje/	hébergeassent /e.bɛʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	héberge /e.bɛʁʒ/	—	hébergeons /e.bɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	hébergez /e.bɛʁ.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).

Derived terms

• hébergement

Further reading

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