gager

See also: Gager

English

Etymology

gage +‎ -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

1. (US) Alternative spelling of gauger

Further reading

• “gager”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Garge, Grega, agger, eggar, regag

French

Etymology

From gage or from Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʒe/

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Verb

gager

1. to guarantee
2. to wager or bet

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	gager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gageant /ɡa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gagé /ɡa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gage /ɡaʒ/	gages /ɡaʒ/	gage /ɡaʒ/	gageons /ɡa.ʒɔ̃/	gagez /ɡa.ʒe/	gagent /ɡaʒ/
	imperfect	gageais /ɡa.ʒɛ/	gageais /ɡa.ʒɛ/	gageait /ɡa.ʒɛ/	gagions /ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/	gagiez /ɡa.ʒje/	gageaient /ɡa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	gageai /ɡa.ʒe/	gageas /ɡa.ʒa/	gagea /ɡa.ʒa/	gageâmes /ɡa.ʒam/	gageâtes /ɡa.ʒat/	gagèrent /ɡa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	gagerai /ɡaʒ.ʁe/	gageras /ɡaʒ.ʁa/	gagera /ɡaʒ.ʁa/	gagerons /ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	gagerez /ɡaʒ.ʁe/	gageront /ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gagerais /ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	gagerais /ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	gagerait /ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	gagerions /ɡa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	gageriez /ɡa.ʒə.ʁje/	gageraient /ɡaʒ.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	gage /ɡaʒ/	gages /ɡaʒ/	gage /ɡaʒ/	gagions /ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/	gagiez /ɡa.ʒje/	gagent /ɡaʒ/
	imperfect2	gageasse /ɡa.ʒas/	gageasses /ɡa.ʒas/	gageât /ɡa.ʒa/	gageassions /ɡa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	gageassiez /ɡa.ʒa.sje/	gageassent /ɡa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gage /ɡaʒ/	—	gageons /ɡa.ʒɔ̃/	gagez /ɡa.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).

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

gager

1. Alternative form of gauger