voyager
English
Etymology
From voyage + -er.
Pronunciation
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Noun
voyager (plural voyagers)
- A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.
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
- 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
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.