ensauvager

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ensauvager

1. to make wild

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written ensauvage- 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 ensauvager (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ensauvager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ensauvageant /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ensauvagé /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ensauvage /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	ensauvages /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	ensauvage /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	ensauvageons /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɔ̃/	ensauvagez /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒe/	ensauvagent /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/
	imperfect	ensauvageais /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɛ/	ensauvageais /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɛ/	ensauvageait /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɛ/	ensauvagions /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒjɔ̃/	ensauvagiez /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒje/	ensauvageaient /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	ensauvageai /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒe/	ensauvageas /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒa/	ensauvagea /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒa/	ensauvageâmes /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒam/	ensauvageâtes /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒat/	ensauvagèrent /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɛʁ/
	future	ensauvagerai /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁe/	ensauvageras /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁa/	ensauvagera /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁa/	ensauvagerons /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	ensauvagerez /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁe/	ensauvageront /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ensauvagerais /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁɛ/	ensauvagerais /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁɛ/	ensauvagerait /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.ʁɛ/	ensauvagerions /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	ensauvageriez /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒə.ʁje/	ensauvageraient /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ.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	ensauvage /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	ensauvages /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	ensauvage /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	ensauvagions /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒjɔ̃/	ensauvagiez /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒje/	ensauvagent /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/
	imperfect2	ensauvageasse /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒas/	ensauvageasses /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒas/	ensauvageât /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒa/	ensauvageassions /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	ensauvageassiez /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒa.sje/	ensauvageassent /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ensauvage /ɑ̃.so.vaʒ/	—	ensauvageons /ɑ̃.so.va.ʒɔ̃/	ensauvagez /ɑ̃.so.va.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “ensauvager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.