Conjuguje

Conjuguje is not a standard word in the vocabulary of major Romance languages. It resembles the Spanish verb conjugar, meaning "to conjugate," and appears occasionally as a nonstandard form or a diacritics-stripped variant. In standard conjugation, the first-person preterite singular is conjugué in Spanish, with an acute accent on the final e; many authoritative sources do not recognize conjuguje as a valid form. In other languages, similar forms exist: conjugué in French as the past participle (conjugué), and conjugue in Portuguese as the present subjunctive. The form conjuguje, when encountered, is typically considered noncanonical rather than a distinct lexical item.

Because of its nonstandard status, conjuguje is sometimes used in pedagogy or software documentation as a placeholder name for a function or module that performs verb conjugation. In linguistic discussion, work on conjugation generally centers on paradigms, stems, and endings rather than this specific form. Some text-processing tools that strip diacritics may produce nonstandard spellings from accented forms, which can include conjuguje, leading to confusion in data sets. In corpus linguistics, such variations are typically treated as orthographic variants.

See also: Conjugation, Verb, Romance languages, Conjugator.