manger
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French mangeoire, manjoire, from mangier (“‘to eat’”) (modern French manger).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
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manger (plural mangers)
- A trough for animals to eat from.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
trough for animals to eat from
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Old French mangier, from Late Latin manducare ‘to chew, devour’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɑ̃ʒe/, SAMPA: /ma~Ze/
- (Paris) IPA: [mɑ̃ː.ˈʒe]
- Homophones: mangeai, mangé, mangée, mangées, mangés, mangez
- Hyphenation: man‧ger
[edit] Verb
manger
- (transitive) To eat.
- Manger du pain, de la viande.
- (intransitive) To eat.
- Manger peu, beaucoup, trop.
- Manger au restaurant.
[edit] Conjugation
- This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /g/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and ranger.
Conjugation of manger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | manger | avoir mangé | |||||
| gerund | en mangeant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | mangeant | ||||||
| past participle | mangé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mange | manges | mange | mangeons | mangez | mangent |
| imperfect | mangeais | mangeais | mangeait | mangions | mangiez | mangeaient | |
| past historic | mangeai | mangeas | mangea | mangeâmes | mangeâtes | mangèrent | |
| future | mangerai | mangeras | mangera | mangerons | mangerez | mangeront | |
| conditional | mangerais | mangerais | mangerait | mangerions | mangeriez | mangeraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mange | manges | mange | mangions | mangiez | mangent |
| imperfect | mangeasse | mangeasses | mangeât | mangeassions | mangeassiez | mangeassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | mange | — | mangeons | mangez | — | ||
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of aegmnr
- magner
