changer

change +‎ -er

changer (plural changers)

1. Someone or something who changes things.
2. Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
3. A person employed in changing or discounting money.

• Usually used together with another noun, eg, automatic tool changer, shape changer, mind changer.

From Old French changier, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin cambiāre, from change in conjugation of cambīre, present active infinitive of cambiō (“exchange, barter”), from Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (“crooked”). Cognate with Italian cambiare, Occitan cambiar, Catalan canviar, Portuguese cambiar, Spanish cambiar, Norman changi and Walloon candjî.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.ʒe/

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• Homophones: changeai, changé, changée, changées, changés, changez

changer

1. (transitive) to exchange (something)
2. (transitive) to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.)
3. (transitive) to change, alter (something en into)
4. (transitive) to change (a diaper)
5. (intransitive) to change
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to change (one's clothes), get changed

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written change- 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.

• échange
• échanger

• “changer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

changer

1. Alternative form of changier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /dʒ/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.