purger

English

Etymology

purge +‎ -er

Noun

purger (plural purgers)

  1. One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.
    1. A cathartic medicine.
      • 1728, Of Bathing in the Hot-baths, at Bathe
        The Aix-la-Chapelle Waters are drunk at this Day, more as Purgers, and Preparatives for the Spaw, […]

Synonyms

French

Verb

purger

  1. (medicine) to purge
  2. (law) to serve (a sentence)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written purge- 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 purger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle purgeant
/pyʁ.ʒɑ̃/
past participle purgé
/pyʁ.ʒe/
infinitive
simple purger
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple purgeant
/pyʁ.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present purge
/pyʁʒ/		 purges
/pyʁʒ/		 purge
/pyʁʒ/		 purgeons
/pyʁ.ʒɔ̃/		 purgez
/pyʁ.ʒe/		 purgent
/pyʁʒ/
imperfect purgeais
/pyʁ.ʒɛ/		 purgeais
/pyʁ.ʒɛ/		 purgeait
/pyʁ.ʒɛ/		 purgions
/pyʁ.ʒjɔ̃/		 purgiez
/pyʁ.ʒje/		 purgeaient
/pyʁ.ʒɛ/
past historic2 purgeai
/pyʁ.ʒe/		 purgeas
/pyʁ.ʒa/		 purgea
/pyʁ.ʒa/		 purgeâmes
/pyʁ.ʒam/		 purgeâtes
/pyʁ.ʒat/		 purgèrent
/pyʁ.ʒɛʁ/
future purgerai
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁe/		 purgeras
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁa/		 purgera
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁa/		 purgerons
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/		 purgerez
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁe/		 purgeront
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional purgerais
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/		 purgerais
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/		 purgerait
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/		 purgerions
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 purgeriez
/pyʁ.ʒə.ʁje/		 purgeraient
/pyʁ.ʒə.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 purge
/pyʁʒ/		 purges
/pyʁʒ/		 purge
/pyʁʒ/		 purgions
/pyʁ.ʒjɔ̃/		 purgiez
/pyʁ.ʒje/		 purgent
/pyʁʒ/
imperfect2 purgeasse
/pyʁ.ʒas/		 purgeasses
/pyʁ.ʒas/		 purgeât
/pyʁ.ʒa/		 purgeassions
/pyʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 purgeassiez
/pyʁ.ʒa.sje/		 purgeassent
/pyʁ.ʒas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — purge
/pyʁʒ/		 — purgeons
/pyʁ.ʒɔ̃/		 purgez
/pyʁ.ʒe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Latin

Verb

purger

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of purgō

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German Bürger

Noun

pȕrger m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ргер)

  1. burgher
  2. a citizen of Zagreb
  3. (derogatory) a member of the Bad Blue Boys ultras
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