tapager

French

Etymology

From tapage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.pa.ʒe/

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Verb

tapager

1. to be noisy; to make noise

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	tapager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tapageant /ta.pa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tapagé /ta.pa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tapage /ta.paʒ/	tapages /ta.paʒ/	tapage /ta.paʒ/	tapageons /ta.pa.ʒɔ̃/	tapagez /ta.pa.ʒe/	tapagent /ta.paʒ/
	imperfect	tapageais /ta.pa.ʒɛ/	tapageais /ta.pa.ʒɛ/	tapageait /ta.pa.ʒɛ/	tapagions /ta.pa.ʒjɔ̃/	tapagiez /ta.pa.ʒje/	tapageaient /ta.pa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	tapageai /ta.pa.ʒe/	tapageas /ta.pa.ʒa/	tapagea /ta.pa.ʒa/	tapageâmes /ta.pa.ʒam/	tapageâtes /ta.pa.ʒat/	tapagèrent /ta.pa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	tapagerai /ta.paʒ.ʁe/	tapageras /ta.paʒ.ʁa/	tapagera /ta.paʒ.ʁa/	tapagerons /ta.paʒ.ʁɔ̃/	tapagerez /ta.paʒ.ʁe/	tapageront /ta.paʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tapagerais /ta.paʒ.ʁɛ/	tapagerais /ta.paʒ.ʁɛ/	tapagerait /ta.paʒ.ʁɛ/	tapagerions /ta.pa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	tapageriez /ta.pa.ʒə.ʁje/	tapageraient /ta.paʒ.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	tapage /ta.paʒ/	tapages /ta.paʒ/	tapage /ta.paʒ/	tapagions /ta.pa.ʒjɔ̃/	tapagiez /ta.pa.ʒje/	tapagent /ta.paʒ/
	imperfect2	tapageasse /ta.pa.ʒas/	tapageasses /ta.pa.ʒas/	tapageât /ta.pa.ʒa/	tapageassions /ta.pa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	tapageassiez /ta.pa.ʒa.sje/	tapageassent /ta.pa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tapage /ta.paʒ/	—	tapageons /ta.pa.ʒɔ̃/	tapagez /ta.pa.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

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

Anagrams

• partage, partagé