paysager

French

Etymology

From paysage

Adjective

paysager (feminine paysagère, masculine plural paysagers, feminine plural paysagères)

1. (attributive) landscape
2. (attributive) countryside; country

Derived terms

• jardin paysager

Verb

paysager

1. to do landscaping; to landscape

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	paysager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	paysageant /pɛ.i.za.ʒɑ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paysagé /pɛ.i.za.ʒe/ or /pe.i.za.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	paysage /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	paysages /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	paysage /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	paysageons /pɛ.i.za.ʒɔ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɔ̃/	paysagez /pɛ.i.za.ʒe/ or /pe.i.za.ʒe/	paysagent /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/
	imperfect	paysageais /pɛ.i.za.ʒɛ/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɛ/	paysageais /pɛ.i.za.ʒɛ/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɛ/	paysageait /pɛ.i.za.ʒɛ/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɛ/	paysagions /pɛ.i.za.ʒjɔ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒjɔ̃/	paysagiez /pɛ.i.za.ʒje/ or /pe.i.za.ʒje/	paysageaient /pɛ.i.za.ʒɛ/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	paysageai /pɛ.i.za.ʒe/ or /pe.i.za.ʒe/	paysageas /pɛ.i.za.ʒa/ or /pe.i.za.ʒa/	paysagea /pɛ.i.za.ʒa/ or /pe.i.za.ʒa/	paysageâmes /pɛ.i.za.ʒam/ or /pe.i.za.ʒam/	paysageâtes /pɛ.i.za.ʒat/ or /pe.i.za.ʒat/	paysagèrent /pɛ.i.za.ʒɛʁ/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɛʁ/
	future	paysagerai /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁe/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁe/	paysageras /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁa/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁa/	paysagera /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁa/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁa/	paysagerons /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	paysagerez /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁe/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁe/	paysageront /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paysagerais /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/	paysagerais /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/	paysagerait /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/	paysagerions /pɛ.i.za.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	paysageriez /pɛ.i.za.ʒə.ʁje/ or /pe.i.za.ʒə.ʁje/	paysageraient /pɛ.i.zaʒ.ʁɛ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ.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	paysage /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	paysages /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	paysage /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	paysagions /pɛ.i.za.ʒjɔ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒjɔ̃/	paysagiez /pɛ.i.za.ʒje/ or /pe.i.za.ʒje/	paysagent /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/
	imperfect2	paysageasse /pɛ.i.za.ʒas/ or /pe.i.za.ʒas/	paysageasses /pɛ.i.za.ʒas/ or /pe.i.za.ʒas/	paysageât /pɛ.i.za.ʒa/ or /pe.i.za.ʒa/	paysageassions /pɛ.i.za.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	paysageassiez /pɛ.i.za.ʒa.sje/ or /pe.i.za.ʒa.sje/	paysageassent /pɛ.i.za.ʒas/ or /pe.i.za.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	paysage /pɛ.i.zaʒ/ or /pe.i.zaʒ/	—	paysageons /pɛ.i.za.ʒɔ̃/ or /pe.i.za.ʒɔ̃/	paysagez /pɛ.i.za.ʒe/ or /pe.i.za.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).

Derived terms

• écopaysager