protéger

Borrowed from Latin prōtegere.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/

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• Homophones: protégé, protégée, protégés, protégées, protégez

protéger

1. (transitive) to protect

   protéger de / protéger contre ― to protect against

   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que nos souvenirs nous protègent ? Sont-ils emportés par le temps ?

     Do our memories protect us? Are they swept away by time?

2. (reflexive) to protect oneself

   se protéger de la chaleur ― to protect oneself from the heat

3. (reflexive, indirect) to protect one's ...

   se protéger les yeux du soleil ― to protect one's eyes from the sun

4. (reflexive, reciprocal) to protect each other

   se protéger l’un l’autre ― to protect each other

This verb is conjugated like assiéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent 'e' is inserted before 'a' and 'o' endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è').

• favoriser

• protéger ses arrières

• protecteur
  • protectorat
• protection
• protège-cahier
• protège-dents
• protège-parapluie
• protège-tibia

• → Romanian: proteja

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