déroger

See also: deroger

French

Etymology

From Latin dērogāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.ʁɔ.ʒe/
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Verb

déroger

  1. to repeal (a law)
  2. to break, contravene, infringe (a law), to break away (from a tradition) [+ à (object)]
    Ceux qui y dérogent risquent jusqu’à la peine de mort.
    Those who violate it can risk as much as the death penalty.
    Il a dérogé à son habitude de se retirer à huit heures
    He broke his habit of retiring at eight o'clock.
    • 2020, Mathieu Feryn, Where is the jazz ? Une approche communicationnelle des mondes du jazz - (2000-2020), →ISBN, page 17:
      Elle déroge à la plus élémentaire discipline académique. Mais, ce mouvement d’introspection est pour moi necessaire.
      It contravenes the most basic academic discipline. But this movement of introspection is necessary for me.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written déroge- 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.

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