gager

See also: Gager

English

Etymology

gage +‎ -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

  1. A measurer.

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From gage or from Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡa.ʒe/

Verb

gager

  1. to guarantee
  2. to wager or bet

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gage- 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 gager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive gager avoir gagé
gerund en gageant en ayant gagé
present participle gageant
/ɡa.ʒɑ̃/
past participle gagé
/ɡa.ʒe/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present gage
/ɡaʒ/		 gages
/ɡaʒ/		 gage
/ɡaʒ/		 gageons
/ɡa.ʒɔ̃/		 gagez
/ɡa.ʒe/		 gagent
/ɡaʒ/
imperfect gageais
/ɡa.ʒɛ/		 gageais
/ɡa.ʒɛ/		 gageait
/ɡa.ʒɛ/		 gagions
/ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/		 gagiez
/ɡa.ʒje/		 gageaient
/ɡa.ʒɛ/
past historic1 gageai
/ɡa.ʒe/		 gageas
/ɡa.ʒa/		 gagea
/ɡa.ʒa/		 gageâmes
/ɡa.ʒam/		 gageâtes
/ɡa.ʒat/		 gagèrent
/ɡa.ʒɛʁ/
future gagerai
/ɡaʒ.ʁe/		 gageras
/ɡaʒ.ʁa/		 gagera
/ɡaʒ.ʁa/		 gagerons
/ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/		 gagerez
/ɡaʒ.ʁe/		 gageront
/ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional gagerais
/ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/		 gagerais
/ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/		 gagerait
/ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/		 gagerions
/ɡa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 gageriez
/ɡa.ʒə.ʁje/		 gageraient
/ɡaʒ.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 gage
/ɡaʒ/		 gages
/ɡaʒ/		 gage
/ɡaʒ/		 gagions
/ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/		 gagiez
/ɡa.ʒje/		 gagent
/ɡaʒ/
imperfect1 gageasse
/ɡa.ʒas/		 gageasses
/ɡa.ʒas/		 gageât
/ɡa.ʒa/		 gageassions
/ɡa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 gageassiez
/ɡa.ʒa.sje/		 gageassent
/ɡa.ʒas/
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— gage
/ɡaʒ/		 — gageons
/ɡa.ʒɔ̃/		 gagez
/ɡa.ʒe/		 —
1literary tenses

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

gager

  1. Alternative form of gauger
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