gager (plural gagers)
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.
gager
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.
| 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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