saccager

French

Etymology

From Italian saccheggiare, from sacco, from Latin saccus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ka.ʒe/

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Verb

saccager

1. (transitive) to sack, pillage

   Synonym: mettre à sac

2. (transitive, figuratively) to ransack

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	saccager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	saccageant /sa.ka.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		saccagé /sa.ka.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saccage /sa.kaʒ/	saccages /sa.kaʒ/	saccage /sa.kaʒ/	saccageons /sa.ka.ʒɔ̃/	saccagez /sa.ka.ʒe/	saccagent /sa.kaʒ/
	imperfect	saccageais /sa.ka.ʒɛ/	saccageais /sa.ka.ʒɛ/	saccageait /sa.ka.ʒɛ/	saccagions /sa.ka.ʒjɔ̃/	saccagiez /sa.ka.ʒje/	saccageaient /sa.ka.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	saccageai /sa.ka.ʒe/	saccageas /sa.ka.ʒa/	saccagea /sa.ka.ʒa/	saccageâmes /sa.ka.ʒam/	saccageâtes /sa.ka.ʒat/	saccagèrent /sa.ka.ʒɛʁ/
	future	saccagerai /sa.kaʒ.ʁe/	saccageras /sa.kaʒ.ʁa/	saccagera /sa.kaʒ.ʁa/	saccagerons /sa.kaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	saccagerez /sa.kaʒ.ʁe/	saccageront /sa.kaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saccagerais /sa.kaʒ.ʁɛ/	saccagerais /sa.kaʒ.ʁɛ/	saccagerait /sa.kaʒ.ʁɛ/	saccagerions /sa.ka.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	saccageriez /sa.ka.ʒə.ʁje/	saccageraient /sa.kaʒ.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	saccage /sa.kaʒ/	saccages /sa.kaʒ/	saccage /sa.kaʒ/	saccagions /sa.ka.ʒjɔ̃/	saccagiez /sa.ka.ʒje/	saccagent /sa.kaʒ/
	imperfect2	saccageasse /sa.ka.ʒas/	saccageasses /sa.ka.ʒas/	saccageât /sa.ka.ʒa/	saccageassions /sa.ka.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	saccageassiez /sa.ka.ʒa.sje/	saccageassent /sa.ka.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saccage /sa.kaʒ/	—	saccageons /sa.ka.ʒɔ̃/	saccagez /sa.ka.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

• saccageur

Further reading

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