conjugues

Conjugues is a term used in linguistics to refer to the various forms a verb can assume when it is conjugated. Conjugation is the process by which verbs are altered to encode grammatical information such as person and number of the subject, tense, aspect, mood, and voice. Conjugues serve as the concrete realizations of these categories in a given language. In many languages, a single verb has multiple conjugues corresponding to different subjects and times.

In Romance languages like Spanish and French, each verb root combines with specific endings. For example, in Spanish, hablar becomes hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos, habláis, hablan in the present indicative. In French, parler yields parle, parles, parle, parlons, parlez, parlent in the present. Other languages use stem changes, suppletive forms, or internal vowel alternations to form conjugues. Some languages employ periphrastic conjugation, using auxiliary verbs plus participles, rather than a single word.

Conjugation systems may be regular, with predictable patterns, or irregular, requiring memorization. They can also reflect additional features such as politeness, evidentiality, or aspectual nuances. In linguistic descriptions, conjugues are analyzed in terms of paradigms and inflectional classes, and they are central to morphosyntax, language learning, and natural language processing.