avantager

French

Etymology

From avantage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

avantager

1. (transitive) to favour
2. to give an advantage to

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	avantager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	avantageant /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		avantagé /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	avantage /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	avantages /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	avantage /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	avantageons /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɔ̃/	avantagez /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/	avantagent /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/
	imperfect	avantageais /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/	avantageais /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/	avantageait /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/	avantagions /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒjɔ̃/	avantagiez /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒje/	avantageaient /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	avantageai /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/	avantageas /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa/	avantagea /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa/	avantageâmes /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒam/	avantageâtes /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒat/	avantagèrent /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɛʁ/
	future	avantagerai /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁe/	avantageras /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁa/	avantagera /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁa/	avantagerons /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/	avantagerez /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁe/	avantageront /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	avantagerais /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɛ/	avantagerais /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɛ/	avantagerait /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.ʁɛ/	avantagerions /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	avantageriez /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒə.ʁje/	avantageraient /a.vɑ̃.taʒ.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	avantage /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	avantages /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	avantage /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	avantagions /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒjɔ̃/	avantagiez /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒje/	avantagent /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/
	imperfect2	avantageasse /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒas/	avantageasses /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒas/	avantageât /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa/	avantageassions /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	avantageassiez /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒa.sje/	avantageassent /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	avantage /a.vɑ̃.taʒ/	—	avantageons /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒɔ̃/	avantagez /a.vɑ̃.ta.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “avantager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.