gamberger
French edit
Etymology edit
Apparently from *comperger, a slang form of compter (“to count, to reckon”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gamberger
- (slang) to think hard
- 1997, “Demain, c’est loin”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
- La pauvreté, ça fait gamberger, en deux temps, trois mouvements / On coupe, on compresse, on découpe, on emballe, on vend
- Poverty really makes you think, and before you know it / You cut, you compress, you chop up, you wrap, you sell
Conjugation edit
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gamberge- 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 gamberger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gamberger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gambergeant /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gambergé /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gamberge /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
gamberges /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
gamberge /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
gambergeons /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
gambergez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒe/ |
gambergent /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect | gambergeais /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
gambergeais /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
gambergeait /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
gambergions /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
gambergiez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒje/ |
gambergeaient /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gambergeai /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒe/ |
gambergeas /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒa/ |
gambergea /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒa/ |
gambergeâmes /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒam/ |
gambergeâtes /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒat/ |
gambergèrent /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | gambergerai /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
gambergeras /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
gambergera /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
gambergerons /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
gambergerez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
gambergeront /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gambergerais /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
gambergerais /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
gambergerait /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
gambergerions /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gambergeriez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
gambergeraient /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.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 | gamberge /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
gamberges /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
gamberge /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
gambergions /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
gambergiez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒje/ |
gambergent /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | gambergeasse /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒas/ |
gambergeasses /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒas/ |
gambergeât /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒa/ |
gambergeassions /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
gambergeassiez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒa.sje/ |
gambergeassent /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gamberge /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁʒ/ |
— | gambergeons /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
gambergez /ɡɑ̃.bɛʁ.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
- “gamberger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.