gager

See also: Gager

English

Etymology

gage +‎ -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

1. A measurer.

See also

• gauger

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gager”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Garge, Grega, agger, eggar

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French

Etymology

From gage or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʒe/

Verb

gager

1. to guarantee
2. to wager or bet

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	gager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gageant /ɡa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gagé /ɡa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gage /ɡaʒ/	gages /ɡaʒ/	gage /ɡaʒ/	gageons /ɡa.ʒɔ̃/	gagez /ɡa.ʒe/	gagent /ɡaʒ/
	imperfect	gageais /ɡa.ʒɛ/	gageais /ɡa.ʒɛ/	gageait /ɡa.ʒɛ/	gagions /ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/	gagiez /ɡa.ʒje/	gageaient /ɡa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	gageai /ɡa.ʒe/	gageas /ɡa.ʒa/	gagea /ɡa.ʒa/	gageâmes /ɡa.ʒam/	gageâtes /ɡa.ʒat/	gagèrent /ɡa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	gagerai /ɡaʒ.ʁe/	gageras /ɡaʒ.ʁa/	gagera /ɡaʒ.ʁa/	gagerons /ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	gagerez /ɡaʒ.ʁe/	gageront /ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gagerais /ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	gagerais /ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	gagerait /ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	gagerions /ɡa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	gageriez /ɡa.ʒə.ʁje/	gageraient /ɡaʒ.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	gage /ɡaʒ/	gages /ɡaʒ/	gage /ɡaʒ/	gagions /ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/	gagiez /ɡa.ʒje/	gagent /ɡaʒ/
	imperfect2	gageasse /ɡa.ʒas/	gageasses /ɡa.ʒas/	gageât /ɡa.ʒa/	gageassions /ɡa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	gageassiez /ɡa.ʒa.sje/	gageassent /ɡa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gage /ɡaʒ/	—	gageons /ɡa.ʒɔ̃/	gagez /ɡa.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

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

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Middle English

Noun

gager

1. Alternative form of gauger