manger

English

WOTD – 17 December 2011    

Manger.

Etymology

From Old French mangoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmeɪn.dʒə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"meIn.dZ@(r)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: man‧ger

Noun

manger (plural mangers)

1. A trough for animals to eat from.

Derived terms

• dog in the manger

Translations

trough for animals to eat from

• Armenian: կերատաշտ (hy) (keratašt)
• Catalan: pessebre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食槽 (cmn) (shícáo), 飼槽 (cmn), 饲槽 (cmn) (sìcáo), 槽 (cmn) (cáo), 馬槽 (cmn), 马槽 (cmn) (mǎcáo)

• Czech: koryto (cs) n, žlab (cs) m
• Dutch: kribbe (nl)
• Finnish: kaukalo (fi)
• French: mangeoire (fr) f
• Georgian: ბაგა (ka) (baga)
• German: Krippe (de) f

• Greek: παχνί (el) (pachní) n, φάτνη (el) (fátni) f
• Hebrew: אבוס (he) (avos)
• Icelandic: jata (is) f
• Italian: mangiatoia (it) f
• Korean: 구유 (ko) (guyu)
• Polish: żłób (pl) m
• Portuguese: manjedoura (pt) f
• Russian: кормушка (ru) (kormúška) f, ясли (ru) (jásli) f pl
• Spanish: pesebre (es) m
• Turkish: yemlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: годівниця (uk) (hodivnýcja) f, ясла (uk) (jásla) pl

Anagrams

• engram, Engram, german, German, ragmen

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French

Etymology

From Old French mangier, from Late Latin manducare ‘to chew, devour’, present active infinitive of manducō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɑ̃ʒe/, X-SAMPA: /ma~Ze/

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• (Paris) IPA: [mɑ̃ː.ˈʒe]

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• Homophones: mangeai, mangé, mangée, mangées, mangés, mangez
• Hyphenation: man‧ger

Verb

manger

1. (transitive) To eat.
   • Manger du pain, de la viande.
2. (intransitive) To eat.
   • Manger peu, beaucoup, trop.
   • Manger au restaurant.

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” /ɡ/). 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			en ayant mangé
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 historic1	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 anterior1	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
	imperfect1	mangeasse	mangeasses	mangeât	mangeassions	mangeassiez	mangeassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	mange	—	mangeons	mangez	—
1literary tenses

Noun

manger m (plural mangers)

1. food, foodstuff.

   Un manger délicat.

Anagrams

• magner
• gramen

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Middle French

Verb

manger

1. to eat (consume food)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of manger

		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 (may be j' before a vowel)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils, elles
simple tenses	present	mange	manges	mange	mangeons	mangez	mangent
	imperfect	mangeois, mangeoys	mangeois, mangeoys	mangeoit, mangeoyt	mangions, mangyons	mangiez, mangyez	mangeoient, mangeoyent
	past historic	mangea	mangeas	mangea	mangeasmes	mangeastes	mangerent
	future	mangerai, mangeray	mangeras	mangera	mangerons	mangerez	mangeront
	conditional	mangerois, mangeroys	mangerois, mangeroys	mangeroit, mangeroyt	mangerions, mangeryons	mangeriez, mangeryez	mangeroient, mangeroyent
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	que tu	qu'il	que nous	que vous	qu'ils, qu'elles
simple tenses	present	mange	manges	mange	mangeons	mangez	mangent
	imperfect	mangeasse	mangeasses	mangeast	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	—

Coordinate terms

• boire, boyre

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) mangiar

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcō, manducāre.

Verb

manger

1. (Puter) to eat

Related terms

• maglier

Usage notes

In standardised Rumantsch Grischun, mangiar is used for people eating and magliar for animals eating. When applied to people magliar means eating badly (eating like a pig). Some of the Romansh idioms do not make this distinction (especially Sursilvan) and magliar is the usual term for human beings.