fourrager
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu.ʁa.ʒe/
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Etymology 1
fourrage + -ier
Adjective
fourrager (feminine fourragère, masculine plural fourragers, feminine plural fourragères)
- (relational) fodder
Etymology 2
fourrage + -er
Verb
fourrager
- (intransitive) to forage
- (intransitive) to rummage through
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written fourrage- 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 fourrager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fourrager | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fourrageant /fu.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fourragé /fu.ʁa.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ | fourrages /fu.ʁaʒ/ | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ | fourrageons /fu.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ | fourragez /fu.ʁa.ʒe/ | fourragent /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
| imperfect | fourrageais /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ | fourrageais /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ | fourrageait /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ | fourragions /fu.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ | fourragiez /fu.ʁa.ʒje/ | fourrageaient /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fourrageai /fu.ʁa.ʒe/ | fourrageas /fu.ʁa.ʒa/ | fourragea /fu.ʁa.ʒa/ | fourrageâmes /fu.ʁa.ʒam/ | fourrageâtes /fu.ʁa.ʒat/ | fourragèrent /fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | fourragerai /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁe/ | fourrageras /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁa/ | fourragera /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁa/ | fourragerons /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | fourragerez /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁe/ | fourrageront /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fourragerais /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ | fourragerais /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ | fourragerait /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ | fourragerions /fu.ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fourrageriez /fu.ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/ | fourrageraient /fu.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 | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ | fourrages /fu.ʁaʒ/ | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ | fourragions /fu.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ | fourragiez /fu.ʁa.ʒje/ | fourragent /fu.ʁaʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | fourrageasse /fu.ʁa.ʒas/ | fourrageasses /fu.ʁa.ʒas/ | fourrageât /fu.ʁa.ʒa/ | fourrageassions /fu.ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | fourrageassiez /fu.ʁa.ʒa.sje/ | fourrageassent /fu.ʁa.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/ | — | fourrageons /fu.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ | fourragez /fu.ʁa.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “fourrager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.