entre-manger

French

Alternative forms

• entremanger

Etymology

From entre- +‎ manger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒe/

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Verb

entre-manger

1. (reflexive) to eat one another

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	entre-manger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entre-mangeant /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entre-mangé /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entre-mange /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	entre-manges /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	entre-mange /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	entre-mangeons /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	entre-mangez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒe/	entre-mangent /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	entre-mangeais /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɛ/	entre-mangeais /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɛ/	entre-mangeait /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɛ/	entre-mangions /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	entre-mangiez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒje/	entre-mangeaient /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	entre-mangeai /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒe/	entre-mangeas /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒa/	entre-mangea /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒa/	entre-mangeâmes /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒam/	entre-mangeâtes /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒat/	entre-mangèrent /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	entre-mangerai /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	entre-mangeras /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	entre-mangera /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	entre-mangerons /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	entre-mangerez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	entre-mangeront /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entre-mangerais /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	entre-mangerais /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	entre-mangerait /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	entre-mangerions /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	entre-mangeriez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	entre-mangeraient /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ.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	entre-mange /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	entre-manges /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	entre-mange /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	entre-mangions /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	entre-mangiez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒje/	entre-mangent /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect2	entre-mangeasse /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒas/	entre-mangeasses /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒas/	entre-mangeât /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒa/	entre-mangeassions /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	entre-mangeassiez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	entre-mangeassent /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entre-mange /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃ʒ/	—	entre-mangeons /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	entre-mangez /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɑ̃.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).