voyager

English

Etymology

From voyage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

voyager (plural voyagers)

1. A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.
   • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     This rudeness and official punctilio, however, brought forth a storm of protest from my fellow voyagers.

Synonyms

• traveller

Related terms

• voyage
• voyageur

Translations

traveller — see traveller

French

Etymology

From voyage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwa.ja.ʒe/

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Verb

voyager

1. to travel, to voyage
   • 1986, Desireless (lyrics and music), “Voyage, Voyage”, in François:

     Voyage, voyage / Plus loin que la nuit et le jour (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / Dans l’espace inouï de l’amour

     Voyage, voyage / Further than the night and the day (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / In the unheard-of space of love

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	voyager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	voyageant /vwa.ja.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		voyagé /vwa.ja.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	voyage /vwa.jaʒ/	voyages /vwa.jaʒ/	voyage /vwa.jaʒ/	voyageons /vwa.ja.ʒɔ̃/	voyagez /vwa.ja.ʒe/	voyagent /vwa.jaʒ/
	imperfect	voyageais /vwa.ja.ʒɛ/	voyageais /vwa.ja.ʒɛ/	voyageait /vwa.ja.ʒɛ/	voyagions /vwa.ja.ʒjɔ̃/	voyagiez /vwa.ja.ʒje/	voyageaient /vwa.ja.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	voyageai /vwa.ja.ʒe/	voyageas /vwa.ja.ʒa/	voyagea /vwa.ja.ʒa/	voyageâmes /vwa.ja.ʒam/	voyageâtes /vwa.ja.ʒat/	voyagèrent /vwa.ja.ʒɛʁ/
	future	voyagerai /vwa.jaʒ.ʁe/	voyageras /vwa.jaʒ.ʁa/	voyagera /vwa.jaʒ.ʁa/	voyagerons /vwa.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	voyagerez /vwa.jaʒ.ʁe/	voyageront /vwa.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voyagerais /vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/	voyagerais /vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/	voyagerait /vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/	voyagerions /vwa.ja.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	voyageriez /vwa.ja.ʒə.ʁje/	voyageraient /vwa.jaʒ.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	voyage /vwa.jaʒ/	voyages /vwa.jaʒ/	voyage /vwa.jaʒ/	voyagions /vwa.ja.ʒjɔ̃/	voyagiez /vwa.ja.ʒje/	voyagent /vwa.jaʒ/
	imperfect2	voyageasse /vwa.ja.ʒas/	voyageasses /vwa.ja.ʒas/	voyageât /vwa.ja.ʒa/	voyageassions /vwa.ja.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	voyageassiez /vwa.ja.ʒa.sje/	voyageassent /vwa.ja.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	voyage /vwa.jaʒ/	—	voyageons /vwa.ja.ʒɔ̃/	voyagez /vwa.ja.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

• machine à voyager dans le temps
• voyageur
• voyageotter

Further reading

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