désavantager

French

Etymology

From dés- +‎ avantager.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/

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Verb

désavantager

1. to disadvantage; hinder

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	désavantager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	désavantageant /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		désavantagé /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	désavantage /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	désavantages /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	désavantage /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	désavantageons /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɔ̃/	désavantagez /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/	désavantagent /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/
	imperfect	désavantageais /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/	désavantageais /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/	désavantageait /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/	désavantagions /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒjɔ̃/	désavantagiez /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒje/	désavantageaient /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	désavantageai /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/	désavantageas /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa/	désavantagea /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa/	désavantageâmes /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒam/	désavantageâtes /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒat/	désavantagèrent /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛʁ/
	future	désavantagerai /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁe/	désavantageras /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁa/	désavantagera /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁa/	désavantagerons /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/	désavantagerez /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁe/	désavantageront /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	désavantagerais /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɛ/	désavantagerais /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɛ/	désavantagerait /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɛ/	désavantagerions /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	désavantageriez /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒə.ʁje/	désavantageraient /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ.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	désavantage /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	désavantages /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	désavantage /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	désavantagions /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒjɔ̃/	désavantagiez /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒje/	désavantagent /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/
	imperfect2	désavantageasse /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒas/	désavantageasses /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒas/	désavantageât /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa/	désavantageassions /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	désavantageassiez /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa.sje/	désavantageassent /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	désavantage /de.za.vɑ̃.taʒ/	—	désavantageons /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɔ̃/	désavantagez /de.za.vɑ̃.ta.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

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