challenger

See also: Challenger

English

Etymology

challenge +‎ -er

Noun

challenger (plural challengers)

One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.
The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.

One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.

Synonyms

(one who challenges): adversary, combatant, contender, disputer, opponent

Translations

one who challenges

Bulgarian: предизвикател (bg) m (predizvikatel)
Dutch: uitdager (nl) m
French: challengeur (fr) m
German: Herausforderer (de) m, Herausforderin f

Indonesian: penantang (id)
Irish: agóideoir m
Romanian: pretendent (ro) m, pretendentă (ro) f, persoană care contestă ceva f
Spanish: desafiador m

French

Verb

challenger

to challenge

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written challenge- 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 challenger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		challenger			avoir challengé
gerund		en challengeant			en ayant challengé
present participle		challengeant /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
past participle		challengé /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	challenges /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	challengeons /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	challengez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/	challengent /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	challengeais /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/	challengeais /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/	challengeait /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/	challengions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	challengiez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒje/	challengeaient /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic¹	challengeai /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/	challengeas /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa/	challengea /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa/	challengeâmes /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒam/	challengeâtes /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒat/	challengèrent /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	challengerai /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	challengeras /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	challengera /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	challengerons /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	challengerez /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	challengeront /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	challengerais /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	challengerais /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	challengerait /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	challengerions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	challengeriez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	challengeraient /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	challenges /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	challengions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	challengiez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒje/	challengent /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	challengeasse /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒas/	challengeasses /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒas/	challengeât /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa/	challengeassions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	challengeassiez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	challengeassent /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/	—	challengeons /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	challengez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/	—
¹literary tenses