manger

Borrowed from Old French mangoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger).

• (UK)IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪn.dʒə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: man‧ger

manger (plural mangers)

1. A trough for animals to eat from.

• dog in the manger

• Engram, German, Magner, engram, german, ragmen

From Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Late Latin manducāre (“to chew, devour”), present active infinitive of manducō, from Latin mandō.

See cognates in regional languages in France : Norman mouogi, Gallo mangier, Picard minger, Bourguignon maingé, Franco-Provençal mengiér, Occitan manjar, Corsican manghjà.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ʒe/

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• (Paris) IPA^(key): [mɑ̃ː.ʒe]

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• Homophones: mangeai, mangé, mangée, mangées, mangés, mangez
• Hyphenation: man‧ger

manger

1. (transitive) to eat

   J'ai mangé de la viande pour le souper.

   I ate some meat for dinner.

2. (intransitive) to eat

   C'est bizarre que je ne mange rien.

   It's strange that I don't eat anything.

   Manger au restaurant.

   To eat in a restaurant.

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

manger m (plural mangers)

1. food, foodstuff.

   Un manger délicat.

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

• magner
• gramen

From Old French mengier.

manger

1. to eat (consume food)

• As parler except an extra e is inserted after the final g before a and o.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: manger

manger m (plural mangers)

1. food (comestible solids)

• boire, boyre

manger

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of mengier

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.

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) mangiar

Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcō, manducāre.

manger

1. (Puter) to eat

• maglier

In standardised Rumantsch Grischun, mangiar is used for people eating and magliar for animals eating. When applied to people magliar means eating badly (eating like a pig). Some of the Romansch lects do not make this distinction (especially Sursilvan) and magliar is the usual term for human beings.