bridger
See also: Bridger
English
Etymology
From Middle English briggere, equivalent to bridge + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Noun
bridger (plural bridgers)
- One who builds bridges
- 2008, Julie Bertagna, Zenith, page 191:
- And he wasn't an ordinary bridger, Tuck remembers, he was said to be one of the best bridge-masters on Pomperoy.
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- One who bridges, or connects two previously separate things.
- 2002, James R. Delisle, Barefoot Irreverence (page 178)
- In either arrangement, the teacher reserves personal judgment and acts more as a bridger of student ideas or as an encourager of reluctant participants (vocal participation, though, should always be the student's prerogative).
- 2002, James R. Delisle, Barefoot Irreverence (page 178)
- One who plays bridge (card game)
French
Etymology
From English bridge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁi.dʒe/
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Verb
bridger
- (intransitive) to play bridge (the card game)
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written bridge- 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 bridger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bridger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bridgeant /bʁi.dʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bridgé /bʁi.dʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | bridge /bʁidʒ/ | bridges /bʁidʒ/ | bridge /bʁidʒ/ | bridgeons /bʁi.dʒɔ̃/ | bridgez /bʁi.dʒe/ | bridgent /bʁidʒ/ |
| imperfect | bridgeais /bʁi.dʒɛ/ | bridgeais /bʁi.dʒɛ/ | bridgeait /bʁi.dʒɛ/ | bridgions /bʁidʒ.jɔ̃/ | bridgiez /bʁidʒ.je/ | bridgeaient /bʁi.dʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bridgeai /bʁi.dʒe/ | bridgeas /bʁi.dʒa/ | bridgea /bʁi.dʒa/ | bridgeâmes /bʁi.dʒam/ | bridgeâtes /bʁi.dʒat/ | bridgèrent /bʁi.dʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | bridgerai /bʁi.dʒə.ʁe/ | bridgeras /bʁi.dʒə.ʁa/ | bridgera /bʁi.dʒə.ʁa/ | bridgerons /bʁi.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | bridgerez /bʁi.dʒə.ʁe/ | bridgeront /bʁi.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bridgerais /bʁi.dʒə.ʁɛ/ | bridgerais /bʁi.dʒə.ʁɛ/ | bridgerait /bʁi.dʒə.ʁɛ/ | bridgerions /bʁi.dʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | bridgeriez /bʁi.dʒə.ʁje/ | bridgeraient /bʁi.dʒə.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 | bridge /bʁidʒ/ | bridges /bʁidʒ/ | bridge /bʁidʒ/ | bridgions /bʁidʒ.jɔ̃/ | bridgiez /bʁidʒ.je/ | bridgent /bʁidʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | bridgeasse /bʁi.dʒas/ | bridgeasses /bʁi.dʒas/ | bridgeât /bʁi.dʒa/ | bridgeassions /bʁi.dʒa.sjɔ̃/ | bridgeassiez /bʁi.dʒa.sje/ | bridgeassent /bʁi.dʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bridge /bʁidʒ/ | — | bridgeons /bʁi.dʒɔ̃/ | bridgez /bʁi.dʒe/ | — | |
| 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
- “bridger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.