affliger

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin afflīgere. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.fli.ʒe/ === Verb === affliger (transitive) to grieve someone, to distress someone (literary) to smite [with de ‘with’] ==== Conjugation ==== This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written afflige- 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. ==== Related terms ==== === References === “affliger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012