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From arebracketing ofMiddle Englisha nauger (seen asan +auger), fromOld Englishnafugār(“nave drill”, literally“nave spear”), fromProto-West Germanic*nabugaiʀ, fromProto-Germanic*nabōgaizaz. Cognate withDutchavegaar.
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auger (pluralaugers)
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auger (third-person singular simple presentaugers,present participleaugering,simple past and past participleaugered)
Not to be confused withaugur.
Fromauge.
auger
This is a regular-er verb, but the stem is writtenauge- 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 asneiger andmanger.
| infinitive | simple | auger | |||||
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| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle orgerund1 | simple | augeant /o.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | augé /o.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | auge /oʒ/ | auges /oʒ/ | auge /oʒ/ | augeons /o.ʒɔ̃/ | augez /o.ʒe/ | augent /oʒ/ |
| imperfect | augeais /o.ʒɛ/ | augeais /o.ʒɛ/ | augeait /o.ʒɛ/ | augions /o.ʒjɔ̃/ | augiez /o.ʒje/ | augeaient /o.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | augeai /o.ʒe/ | augeas /o.ʒa/ | augea /o.ʒa/ | augeâmes /o.ʒam/ | augeâtes /o.ʒat/ | augèrent /o.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | augerai /oʒ.ʁe/ | augeras /oʒ.ʁa/ | augera /oʒ.ʁa/ | augerons /oʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | augerez /oʒ.ʁe/ | augeront /oʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | augerais /oʒ.ʁɛ/ | augerais /oʒ.ʁɛ/ | augerait /oʒ.ʁɛ/ | augerions /o.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | augeriez /o.ʒə.ʁje/ | augeraient /oʒ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | auge /oʒ/ | auges /oʒ/ | auge /oʒ/ | augions /o.ʒjɔ̃/ | augiez /o.ʒje/ | augent /oʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | augeasse /o.ʒas/ | augeasses /o.ʒas/ | augeât /o.ʒa/ | augeassions /o.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | augeassiez /o.ʒa.sje/ | augeassent /o.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | auge /oʒ/ | — | augeons /o.ʒɔ̃/ | augez /o.ʒe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81). | |||||||
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