émarger

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ marge +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.maʁ.ʒe/

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Verb

émarger

1. to initial (a document)
2. to sign, sign in
3. to annotate, make marginal notes in
4. to draw one's salary

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written émarge- 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 émarger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émarger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émargeant /e.maʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émargé /e.maʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émarge /e.maʁʒ/	émarges /e.maʁʒ/	émarge /e.maʁʒ/	émargeons /e.maʁ.ʒɔ̃/	émargez /e.maʁ.ʒe/	émargent /e.maʁʒ/
	imperfect	émargeais /e.maʁ.ʒɛ/	émargeais /e.maʁ.ʒɛ/	émargeait /e.maʁ.ʒɛ/	émargions /e.maʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	émargiez /e.maʁ.ʒje/	émargeaient /e.maʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	émargeai /e.maʁ.ʒe/	émargeas /e.maʁ.ʒa/	émargea /e.maʁ.ʒa/	émargeâmes /e.maʁ.ʒam/	émargeâtes /e.maʁ.ʒat/	émargèrent /e.maʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	émargerai /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	émargeras /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	émargera /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	émargerons /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	émargerez /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	émargeront /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émargerais /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	émargerais /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	émargerait /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	émargerions /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	émargeriez /e.maʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	émargeraient /e.maʁ.ʒə.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	émarge /e.maʁʒ/	émarges /e.maʁʒ/	émarge /e.maʁʒ/	émargions /e.maʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	émargiez /e.maʁ.ʒje/	émargent /e.maʁʒ/
	imperfect2	émargeasse /e.maʁ.ʒas/	émargeasses /e.maʁ.ʒas/	émargeât /e.maʁ.ʒa/	émargeassions /e.maʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	émargeassiez /e.maʁ.ʒa.sje/	émargeassent /e.maʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émarge /e.maʁʒ/	—	émargeons /e.maʁ.ʒɔ̃/	émargez /e.maʁ.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

• émargement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• germera