fourrager

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fu.ʁa.ʒe/
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Etymology 1

From fourrage +‎ -ier.

Adjective

fourrager (feminine fourragère, masculine plural fourragers, feminine plural fourragères)

(relational) fodder

Etymology 2

From fourrage +‎ -er.

Verb

fourrager

(intransitive) to forage
(intransitive) to rummage through

Conjugation

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

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	fourrager
present participle or gerund¹	simple	fourrageant /fu.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fourragé /fu.ʁa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/	fourrages /fu.ʁaʒ/	fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/	fourrageons /fu.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/	fourragez /fu.ʁa.ʒe/	fourragent /fu.ʁaʒ/
	imperfect	fourrageais /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/	fourrageais /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/	fourrageait /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/	fourragions /fu.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	fourragiez /fu.ʁa.ʒje/	fourrageaient /fu.ʁa.ʒɛ/
	past historic²	fourrageai /fu.ʁa.ʒe/	fourrageas /fu.ʁa.ʒa/	fourragea /fu.ʁa.ʒa/	fourrageâmes /fu.ʁa.ʒam/	fourrageâtes /fu.ʁa.ʒat/	fourragèrent /fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	fourragerai /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁe/	fourrageras /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁa/	fourragera /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁa/	fourragerons /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	fourragerez /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁe/	fourrageront /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fourragerais /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	fourragerais /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	fourragerait /fu.ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	fourragerions /fu.ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	fourrageriez /fu.ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/	fourrageraient /fu.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	fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/	fourrages /fu.ʁaʒ/	fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/	fourragions /fu.ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	fourragiez /fu.ʁa.ʒje/	fourragent /fu.ʁaʒ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	fourrageasse /fu.ʁa.ʒas/	fourrageasses /fu.ʁa.ʒas/	fourrageât /fu.ʁa.ʒa/	fourrageassions /fu.ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	fourrageassiez /fu.ʁa.ʒa.sje/	fourrageassent /fu.ʁa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	fourrage /fu.ʁaʒ/	—	fourrageons /fu.ʁa.ʒɔ̃/	fourragez /fu.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).