nuager

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French

Etymology

From nuage +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /nɥa.ʒe/

Verb

nuager

  1. to cover with clouds
    • Rétif de La Bretonne, La mimographie, Éd. Changuion, Amsterdam, 1770
      Il est venu m'embrasser, avec un front nuagé, de cet air embarrassément fier, qui semble dire aux gens : je boude, de peur d'être grondé.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written nuage- 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 nuager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple nuager
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple nuageant
/nɥa.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle nuagé
/nɥa.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present nuage
/nɥaʒ/ 		nuages
/nɥaʒ/ 		nuage
/nɥaʒ/ 		nuageons
/nɥa.ʒɔ̃/ 		nuagez
/nɥa.ʒe/ 		nuagent
/nɥaʒ/
imperfect nuageais
/nɥa.ʒɛ/ 		nuageais
/nɥa.ʒɛ/ 		nuageait
/nɥa.ʒɛ/ 		nuagions
/nɥa.ʒjɔ̃/ 		nuagiez
/nɥa.ʒje/ 		nuageaient
/nɥa.ʒɛ/
past historic2 nuageai
/nɥa.ʒe/ 		nuageas
/nɥa.ʒa/ 		nuagea
/nɥa.ʒa/ 		nuageâmes
/nɥa.ʒam/ 		nuageâtes
/nɥa.ʒat/ 		nuagèrent
/nɥa.ʒɛʁ/
future nuagerai
/nɥaʒ.ʁe/ 		nuageras
/nɥaʒ.ʁa/ 		nuagera
/nɥaʒ.ʁa/ 		nuagerons
/nɥaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ 		nuagerez
/nɥaʒ.ʁe/ 		nuageront
/nɥaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional nuagerais
/nɥaʒ.ʁɛ/ 		nuagerais
/nɥaʒ.ʁɛ/ 		nuagerait
/nɥaʒ.ʁɛ/ 		nuagerions
/nɥa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		nuageriez
/nɥa.ʒə.ʁje/ 		nuageraient
/nɥaʒ.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 nuage
/nɥaʒ/ 		nuages
/nɥaʒ/ 		nuage
/nɥaʒ/ 		nuagions
/nɥa.ʒjɔ̃/ 		nuagiez
/nɥa.ʒje/ 		nuagent
/nɥaʒ/
imperfect2 nuageasse
/nɥa.ʒas/ 		nuageasses
/nɥa.ʒas/ 		nuageât
/nɥa.ʒa/ 		nuageassions
/nɥa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		nuageassiez
/nɥa.ʒa.sje/ 		nuageassent
/nɥa.ʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — nuage
/nɥaʒ/ 		— nuageons
/nɥa.ʒɔ̃/ 		nuagez
/nɥa.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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