vendanger

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vindēmiāre. By surface analysis, vendange +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

vendanger

1. to vintage

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	vendanger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vendangeant /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vendangé /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vendange /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	vendanges /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	vendange /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	vendangeons /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	vendangez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒe/	vendangent /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	vendangeais /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/	vendangeais /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/	vendangeait /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/	vendangions /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	vendangiez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒje/	vendangeaient /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	vendangeai /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒe/	vendangeas /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒa/	vendangea /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒa/	vendangeâmes /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒam/	vendangeâtes /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒat/	vendangèrent /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	vendangerai /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	vendangeras /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	vendangera /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	vendangerons /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	vendangerez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	vendangeront /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vendangerais /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	vendangerais /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	vendangerait /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	vendangerions /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	vendangeriez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	vendangeraient /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ.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	vendange /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	vendanges /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	vendange /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	vendangions /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	vendangiez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒje/	vendangent /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect2	vendangeasse /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒas/	vendangeasses /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒas/	vendangeât /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒa/	vendangeassions /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	vendangeassiez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	vendangeassent /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vendange /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/	—	vendangeons /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	vendangez /vɑ̃.dɑ̃.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

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