ronger
French
Etymology
From Old French rongier, from a crossing of rungier (from Latin rūmigāre) with influence from a Vulgar Latin *rodicāre, itself from Latin rōdō (“to gnaw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɔ̃.ʒe/
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Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written ronge- 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 ronger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | rongeant /ʁɔ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | rongé /ʁɔ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | ronger | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | rongeant /ʁɔ̃.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 | ronge /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
ronges /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
ronge /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
rongeons /ʁɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
rongez /ʁɔ̃.ʒe/ |
rongent /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | rongeais /ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ/ |
rongeais /ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ/ |
rongeait /ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ/ |
rongions /ʁɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
rongiez /ʁɔ̃.ʒje/ |
rongeaient /ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rongeai /ʁɔ̃.ʒe/ |
rongeas /ʁɔ̃.ʒa/ |
rongea /ʁɔ̃.ʒa/ |
rongeâmes /ʁɔ̃.ʒam/ |
rongeâtes /ʁɔ̃.ʒat/ |
rongèrent /ʁɔ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | rongerai /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
rongeras /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
rongera /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
rongerons /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
rongerez /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
rongeront /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rongerais /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
rongerais /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
rongerait /ʁɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
rongerions /ʁɔ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rongeriez /ʁɔ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
rongeraient /ʁɔ̃ʒ.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 | ronge /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
ronges /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
ronge /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
rongions /ʁɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
rongiez /ʁɔ̃.ʒje/ |
rongent /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | rongeasse /ʁɔ̃.ʒas/ |
rongeasses /ʁɔ̃.ʒas/ |
rongeât /ʁɔ̃.ʒa/ |
rongeassions /ʁɔ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
rongeassiez /ʁɔ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
rongeassent /ʁɔ̃.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ronge /ʁɔ̃ʒ/ |
— | rongeons /ʁɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
rongez /ʁɔ̃.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). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “ronger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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