obliger

oblige +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /əˈblaɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

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obliger (plural obligers)

1. One who, or that which, obliges.
   • a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon

     it is the natural property of the same heart, to be a gentle Interpreter, which is so noble an Obliger

• “obliger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Inherited from Middle French obliger, from Old French obligier, borrowed from Latin obligāre.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.bli.ʒe/

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• Homophones: obligé, obligeai

obliger

1. (transitive) to oblige, to require, to compel, to force someone (to do something: (transitive with à))

   Synonyms: contraindre, forcer

2. (passive voice) (transitive with de) to have to

   Synonym: devoir

3. (Louisiana) to help, to aid

   Synonym: aider

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

• noblesse oblige

• obligation
  • obligataire / obligationnaire
• obligatoire
• obligatoirement
• désobliger

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

obliger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of obligō

From Old French obligier, from Latin obligāre, present active infinitive of obligō.

obliger

1. (transitive) to oblige

• As parler except an extra e is inserted after the final g before a and o.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: obliger