arrérager

French

Etymology

From arrérages +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

arrérager

to be in arrears

Conjugation

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

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	arrérager
present participle or gerund¹	simple	arrérageant /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arréragé /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	arrérage /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	arrérages /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	arrérage /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	arrérageons /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/	arréragez /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒe/	arréragent /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/
	imperfect	arrérageais /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɛ/	arrérageais /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɛ/	arrérageait /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɛ/	arréragions /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	arréragiez /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒje/	arrérageaient /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɛ/
	past historic²	arrérageai /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒe/	arrérageas /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒa/	arréragea /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒa/	arrérageâmes /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒam/	arrérageâtes /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒat/	arréragèrent /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	arréragerai /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁe/	arrérageras /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁa/	arréragera /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁa/	arréragerons /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	arréragerez /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁe/	arrérageront /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	arréragerais /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	arréragerais /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	arréragerait /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	arréragerions /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	arrérageriez /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/	arrérageraient /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ.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	arrérage /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	arrérages /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	arrérage /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	arréragions /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	arréragiez /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒje/	arréragent /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	arrérageasse /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒas/	arrérageasses /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒas/	arrérageât /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒa/	arrérageassions /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	arrérageassiez /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒa.sje/	arrérageassent /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	arrérage /a.ʁe.ʁaʒ/	—	arrérageons /a.ʁe.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/	arréragez /a.ʁe.ʁa.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).