louanger

French

Etymology

From louange +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.ɑ̃.ʒe/, /lwɑ̃.ʒe/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: louangeai, louangé, louangée, louangées, louangés, louangez

Verb

louanger

1. to praise; to laud

   Si déjà je louangeais l'hôtel de Sotchi, que dirai-je de celui de Sinop, près de Soukhoum, bien supérieur. (André Gide, Retour de l’U.R.S.S., 1936)

Usage notes

The proper verb is louer but due to its polysemy, louanger is used in particular when ambiguity arises.

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	louanger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	louangeant /lwɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		louangé /lwɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	louange /lwɑ̃ʒ/	louanges /lwɑ̃ʒ/	louange /lwɑ̃ʒ/	louangeons /lwɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	louangez /lwɑ̃.ʒe/	louangent /lwɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	louangeais /lwɑ̃.ʒɛ/	louangeais /lwɑ̃.ʒɛ/	louangeait /lwɑ̃.ʒɛ/	louangions /lwɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	louangiez /lwɑ̃.ʒje/	louangeaient /lwɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	louangeai /lwɑ̃.ʒe/	louangeas /lwɑ̃.ʒa/	louangea /lwɑ̃.ʒa/	louangeâmes /lwɑ̃.ʒam/	louangeâtes /lwɑ̃.ʒat/	louangèrent /lwɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	louangerai /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	louangeras /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	louangera /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	louangerons /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	louangerez /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	louangeront /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	louangerais /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	louangerais /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	louangerait /lwɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	louangerions /lwɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	louangeriez /lwɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	louangeraient /lwɑ̃ʒ.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	louange /lwɑ̃ʒ/	louanges /lwɑ̃ʒ/	louange /lwɑ̃ʒ/	louangions /lwɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	louangiez /lwɑ̃.ʒje/	louangent /lwɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect2	louangeasse /lwɑ̃.ʒas/	louangeasses /lwɑ̃.ʒas/	louangeât /lwɑ̃.ʒa/	louangeassions /lwɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	louangeassiez /lwɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	louangeassent /lwɑ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	louange /lwɑ̃ʒ/	—	louangeons /lwɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	louangez /lwɑ̃.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

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