ombrager

French

Etymology

From ombrage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe/

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Verb

ombrager

1. (transitive) to shade
2. (transitive) to overshadow

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	ombrager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ombrageant /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ombragé /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ombrage /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	ombrages /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	ombrage /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	ombrageons /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɔ̃/	ombragez /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe/	ombragent /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/
	imperfect	ombrageais /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɛ/	ombrageais /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɛ/	ombrageait /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɛ/	ombragions /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	ombragiez /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒje/	ombrageaient /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	ombrageai /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe/	ombrageas /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒa/	ombragea /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒa/	ombrageâmes /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒam/	ombrageâtes /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒat/	ombragèrent /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	ombragerai /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁe/	ombrageras /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁa/	ombragera /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁa/	ombragerons /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	ombragerez /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁe/	ombrageront /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ombragerais /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	ombragerais /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	ombragerait /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	ombragerions /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	ombrageriez /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒə.ʁje/	ombrageraient /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ.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	ombrage /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	ombrages /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	ombrage /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	ombragions /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	ombragiez /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒje/	ombragent /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/
	imperfect2	ombrageasse /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒas/	ombrageasses /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒas/	ombrageât /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒa/	ombrageassions /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	ombrageassiez /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒa.sje/	ombrageassent /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ombrage /ɔ̃.bʁaʒ/	—	ombrageons /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒɔ̃/	ombragez /ɔ̃.bʁa.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

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