jauger

French

Etymology

From Middle French jauger, from Old French jaugier, from jauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”); see also jauge. More at gauge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒo.ʒe/

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Verb

jauger

1. to sound (measure); to gauge by sounding

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	jauger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jaugeant /ʒo.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jaugé /ʒo.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jauge /ʒoʒ/	jauges /ʒoʒ/	jauge /ʒoʒ/	jaugeons /ʒo.ʒɔ̃/	jaugez /ʒo.ʒe/	jaugent /ʒoʒ/
	imperfect	jaugeais /ʒo.ʒɛ/	jaugeais /ʒo.ʒɛ/	jaugeait /ʒo.ʒɛ/	jaugions /ʒo.ʒjɔ̃/	jaugiez /ʒo.ʒje/	jaugeaient /ʒo.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	jaugeai /ʒo.ʒe/	jaugeas /ʒo.ʒa/	jaugea /ʒo.ʒa/	jaugeâmes /ʒo.ʒam/	jaugeâtes /ʒo.ʒat/	jaugèrent /ʒo.ʒɛʁ/
	future	jaugerai /ʒoʒ.ʁe/	jaugeras /ʒoʒ.ʁa/	jaugera /ʒoʒ.ʁa/	jaugerons /ʒoʒ.ʁɔ̃/	jaugerez /ʒoʒ.ʁe/	jaugeront /ʒoʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jaugerais /ʒoʒ.ʁɛ/	jaugerais /ʒoʒ.ʁɛ/	jaugerait /ʒoʒ.ʁɛ/	jaugerions /ʒo.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	jaugeriez /ʒo.ʒə.ʁje/	jaugeraient /ʒoʒ.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	jauge /ʒoʒ/	jauges /ʒoʒ/	jauge /ʒoʒ/	jaugions /ʒo.ʒjɔ̃/	jaugiez /ʒo.ʒje/	jaugent /ʒoʒ/
	imperfect2	jaugeasse /ʒo.ʒas/	jaugeasses /ʒo.ʒas/	jaugeât /ʒo.ʒa/	jaugeassions /ʒo.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	jaugeassiez /ʒo.ʒa.sje/	jaugeassent /ʒo.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jauge /ʒoʒ/	—	jaugeons /ʒo.ʒɔ̃/	jaugez /ʒo.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).

Related terms

• jauge
• jaugeage

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• jugera