vidanger

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.dɑ̃.ʒe/

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Verb

vidanger

1. to empty a reservoir, cesspit etc.
2. to change the oil in the motor of a vehicle

Conjugation

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

Conjugation of vidanger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vidanger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vidangeant /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vidangé /vi.dɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vidange /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	vidanges /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	vidange /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	vidangeons /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	vidangez /vi.dɑ̃.ʒe/	vidangent /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	vidangeais /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/	vidangeais /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/	vidangeait /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/	vidangions /vi.dɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	vidangiez /vi.dɑ̃.ʒje/	vidangeaient /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	vidangeai /vi.dɑ̃.ʒe/	vidangeas /vi.dɑ̃.ʒa/	vidangea /vi.dɑ̃.ʒa/	vidangeâmes /vi.dɑ̃.ʒam/	vidangeâtes /vi.dɑ̃.ʒat/	vidangèrent /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	vidangerai /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	vidangeras /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	vidangera /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	vidangerons /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	vidangerez /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	vidangeront /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vidangerais /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	vidangerais /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	vidangerait /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	vidangerions /vi.dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	vidangeriez /vi.dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	vidangeraient /vi.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	vidange /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	vidanges /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	vidange /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	vidangions /vi.dɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	vidangiez /vi.dɑ̃.ʒje/	vidangent /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect2	vidangeasse /vi.dɑ̃.ʒas/	vidangeasses /vi.dɑ̃.ʒas/	vidangeât /vi.dɑ̃.ʒa/	vidangeassions /vi.dɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	vidangeassiez /vi.dɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	vidangeassent /vi.dɑ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vidange /vi.dɑ̃ʒ/	—	vidangeons /vi.dɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	vidangez /vi.dɑ̃.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• vidangeur

See also

• vidange
• vider

Further reading

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