tapager
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.pa.ʒe/
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Verb
tapager
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written tapage- 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 tapager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tapager | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tapageant /ta.pa.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tapagé /ta.pa.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tapage /ta.paʒ/ |
tapages /ta.paʒ/ |
tapage /ta.paʒ/ |
tapageons /ta.pa.ʒɔ̃/ |
tapagez /ta.pa.ʒe/ |
tapagent /ta.paʒ/ |
| imperfect | tapageais /ta.pa.ʒɛ/ |
tapageais /ta.pa.ʒɛ/ |
tapageait /ta.pa.ʒɛ/ |
tapagions /ta.pa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
tapagiez /ta.pa.ʒje/ |
tapageaient /ta.pa.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tapageai /ta.pa.ʒe/ |
tapageas /ta.pa.ʒa/ |
tapagea /ta.pa.ʒa/ |
tapageâmes /ta.pa.ʒam/ |
tapageâtes /ta.pa.ʒat/ |
tapagèrent /ta.pa.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | tapagerai /ta.paʒ.ʁe/ |
tapageras /ta.paʒ.ʁa/ |
tapagera /ta.paʒ.ʁa/ |
tapagerons /ta.paʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
tapagerez /ta.paʒ.ʁe/ |
tapageront /ta.paʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tapagerais /ta.paʒ.ʁɛ/ |
tapagerais /ta.paʒ.ʁɛ/ |
tapagerait /ta.paʒ.ʁɛ/ |
tapagerions /ta.pa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tapageriez /ta.pa.ʒə.ʁje/ |
tapageraient /ta.paʒ.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 | tapage /ta.paʒ/ |
tapages /ta.paʒ/ |
tapage /ta.paʒ/ |
tapagions /ta.pa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
tapagiez /ta.pa.ʒje/ |
tapagent /ta.paʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | tapageasse /ta.pa.ʒas/ |
tapageasses /ta.pa.ʒas/ |
tapageât /ta.pa.ʒa/ |
tapageassions /ta.pa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
tapageassiez /ta.pa.ʒa.sje/ |
tapageassent /ta.pa.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tapage /ta.paʒ/ |
— | tapageons /ta.pa.ʒɔ̃/ |
tapagez /ta.pa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “tapager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.