From Middle English rager, raiger, ragere, equivalent to rage + -er.
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rager (plural ragers)
rager
From rageren (“to brush”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “check, please: is it from ragen or rageren?”)
rager m (plural ragers, diminutive ragertje n)
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rager
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written rage- 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 | rager | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | rageant /ʁa.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | ragé /ʁa.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | rage /ʁaʒ/ |
rages /ʁaʒ/ |
rage /ʁaʒ/ |
rageons /ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ |
ragez /ʁa.ʒe/ |
ragent /ʁaʒ/ |
imperfect | rageais /ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
rageais /ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
rageait /ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
ragions /ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
ragiez /ʁa.ʒje/ |
rageaient /ʁa.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | rageai /ʁa.ʒe/ |
rageas /ʁa.ʒa/ |
ragea /ʁa.ʒa/ |
rageâmes /ʁa.ʒam/ |
rageâtes /ʁa.ʒat/ |
ragèrent /ʁa.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | ragerai /ʁaʒ.ʁe/ |
rageras /ʁaʒ.ʁa/ |
ragera /ʁaʒ.ʁa/ |
ragerons /ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
ragerez /ʁaʒ.ʁe/ |
rageront /ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | ragerais /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
ragerais /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
ragerait /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
ragerions /ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rageriez /ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/ |
rageraient /ʁaʒ.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 | rage /ʁaʒ/ |
rages /ʁaʒ/ |
rage /ʁaʒ/ |
ragions /ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
ragiez /ʁa.ʒje/ |
ragent /ʁaʒ/ |
imperfect2 | rageasse /ʁa.ʒas/ |
rageasses /ʁa.ʒas/ |
rageât /ʁa.ʒa/ |
rageassions /ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
rageassiez /ʁa.ʒa.sje/ |
rageassent /ʁa.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rage /ʁaʒ/ |
— | rageons /ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ |
ragez /ʁa.ʒe/ |
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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). |