fourrager
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editfourrager (feminine fourragère, masculine plural fourragers, feminine plural fourragères)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editfourrager
- (intransitive) to forage
- (intransitive) to rummage through
Conjugation
editThis is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written fourrage- 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 fourrager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | fourrager | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | fourrageant /fu.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | fourragé /fu.ʁa.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
fourrages /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
fourrageons /fu.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ |
fourragez /fu.ʁa.ʒe/ |
fourragent /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
imperfect | fourrageais /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
fourrageais /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
fourrageait /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
fourragions /fu.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
fourragiez /fu.ʁa.ʒje/ |
fourrageaient /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | fourrageai /fu.ʁa.ʒe/ |
fourrageas /fu.ʁa.ʒa/ |
fourragea /fu.ʁa.ʒa/ |
fourrageâmes /fu.ʁa.ʒam/ |
fourrageâtes /fu.ʁa.ʒat/ |
fourragèrent /fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | fourragerai /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁe/ |
fourrageras /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁa/ |
fourragera /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁa/ |
fourragerons /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
fourragerez /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁe/ |
fourrageront /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | fourragerais /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
fourragerais /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
fourragerait /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
fourragerions /fu.ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fourrageriez /fu.ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/ |
fourrageraient /fu.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 | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
fourrages /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
fourragions /fu.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
fourragiez /fu.ʁa.ʒje/ |
fourragent /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
imperfect2 | fourrageasse /fu.ʁa.ʒas/ |
fourrageasses /fu.ʁa.ʒas/ |
fourrageât /fu.ʁa.ʒa/ |
fourrageassions /fu.ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
fourrageassiez /fu.ʁa.ʒa.sje/ |
fourrageassent /fu.ʁa.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
— | fourrageons /fu.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ |
fourragez /fu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
edit- “fourrager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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