venger
English
Noun
venger (plural vengers)
- Obsolete form of avenger.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I.iii:
- His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand, / Who streight him rent in thousand peeces small
- 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Mutiny of the Mavericks:
- And the hand of the venger shall never be stayed / Till his race, faith, and speech are a dream of the past
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I.iii:
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 venger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Etymology
From Old French vengier, from Latin vindicāre, present active infinitive of vindicō.
Pronunciation
Verb
venger
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written venge- 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.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | venger | avoir vengé | |||||
| gerund | en vengeant | en ayant vengé | |||||
| present participle | vengeant /vɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | vengé /vɑ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | venge /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
venges /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
venge /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
vengeons /vɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
vengez /vɑ̃.ʒe/ |
vengent /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | vengeais /vɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
vengeais /vɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
vengeait /vɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
vengions /vɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
vengiez /vɑ̃.ʒje/ |
vengeaient /vɑ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | vengeai /vɑ̃.ʒe/ |
vengeas /vɑ̃.ʒa/ |
vengea /vɑ̃.ʒa/ |
vengeâmes /vɑ̃.ʒam/ |
vengeâtes /vɑ̃.ʒat/ |
vengèrent /vɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | vengerai /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
vengeras /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
vengera /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
vengerons /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
vengerez /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
vengeront /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vengerais /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
vengerais /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
vengerait /vɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
vengerions /vɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vengeriez /vɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
vengeraient /vɑ̃ʒ.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 | venge /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
venges /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
venge /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
vengions /vɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
vengiez /vɑ̃.ʒje/ |
vengent /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect1 | vengeasse /vɑ̃.ʒas/ |
vengeasses /vɑ̃.ʒas/ |
vengeât /vɑ̃.ʒa/ |
vengeassions /vɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
vengeassiez /vɑ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
vengeassent /vɑ̃.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 | – | |
| — | venge /vɑ̃ʒ/ |
— | vengeons /vɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
vengez /vɑ̃.ʒe/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “venger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
venger m
- indefinite plural of veng
Old French
Verb
venger
- Alternative form of vengier
Conjugation
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.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | venger | avoir vengé | |||||
| gerund | en venjant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | venjant | ||||||
| past participle | vengé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | venge | venges | venge | venjons | vengez | vengent |
| imperfect | venjoie, vengeie, venjoe, vengeve | venjoies, vengeies, venjoes, vengeves | venjoit, vengeit, venjot, vengeve | vengiiens, vengiens | vengiiez, vengiez | venjoient, vengeient, venjoent, vengevent | |
| preterite | venjai | venjas | venja | venjames | venjastes | vengerent | |
| future | vengerai | vengeras | vengera | vengerons | vengeroiz, vengereiz, vengerez | vengeront | |
| conditional | vengeroie, vengereie | vengeroies, vengereies | vengeroit, vengereit | vengeriiens, vengeriens | vengeriiez, vengeriez | vengeroient, vengereient | |
| 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 anterior | Use the preterite 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 jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | venge | venges | venge | venjons | vengez | vengent |
| imperfect | venjasse | venjasses | venjast | vengissons, vengissiens | vengissoiz, vengissez, vengissiez | venjassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | venge | — | venjons | vengez | — | ||