protéger

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin prōtegere. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ Homophones: protégé, protégée, protégés, protégées, protégez === Verb === protéger (transitive) to protect protéger de / protéger contre ― to protect against (reflexive) to protect oneself se protéger de la chaleur ― to protect oneself from the heat (reflexive, indirect) to protect one's ... se protéger les yeux du soleil ― to protect one's eyes from the sun (reflexive, reciprocal) to protect each other se protéger l'un l'autre ― to protect each other ==== Conjugation ==== 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'). ==== Synonyms ==== favoriser ==== Derived terms ==== protéger ses arrières ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Romanian: proteja === Further reading === “protéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012