enrager

French

Etymology

First attested in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, corresponding to en- +‎ rage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒe/

Verb

enrager

1. (obsolete) to have rabies
2. to enrage, anger, infuriate
3. to inflame, arouse

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	enrager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enrageant /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enragé /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enrage /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	enrages /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	enrage /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	enrageons /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/	enragez /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒe/	enragent /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/
	imperfect	enrageais /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɛ/	enrageais /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɛ/	enrageait /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɛ/	enragions /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	enragiez /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒje/	enrageaient /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	enrageai /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒe/	enrageas /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒa/	enragea /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒa/	enrageâmes /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒam/	enrageâtes /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒat/	enragèrent /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	enragerai /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁe/	enrageras /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁa/	enragera /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁa/	enragerons /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	enragerez /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁe/	enrageront /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enragerais /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	enragerais /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	enragerait /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	enragerions /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	enrageriez /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/	enrageraient /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ.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	enrage /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	enrages /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	enrage /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	enragions /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	enragiez /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒje/	enragent /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/
	imperfect2	enrageasse /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒas/	enrageasses /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒas/	enrageât /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒa/	enrageassions /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	enrageassiez /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒa.sje/	enrageassent /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enrage /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/	—	enrageons /ɑ̃.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/	enragez /ɑ̃.ʁa.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

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

Anagrams

• régnera