ravager

English

Etymology

From ravage +‎ -er.

Noun

ravager (plural ravagers)

1. One who ravages.

Translations

one who ravages

Latin: populātor m

Anagrams

• Vergara

French

Etymology

From noun use of earlier ravage (“act of laying waste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.va.ʒe/

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Verb

ravager

1. to ravage, to ruin

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	ravager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ravageant /ʁa.va.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ravagé /ʁa.va.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ravage /ʁa.vaʒ/	ravages /ʁa.vaʒ/	ravage /ʁa.vaʒ/	ravageons /ʁa.va.ʒɔ̃/	ravagez /ʁa.va.ʒe/	ravagent /ʁa.vaʒ/
	imperfect	ravageais /ʁa.va.ʒɛ/	ravageais /ʁa.va.ʒɛ/	ravageait /ʁa.va.ʒɛ/	ravagions /ʁa.va.ʒjɔ̃/	ravagiez /ʁa.va.ʒje/	ravageaient /ʁa.va.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	ravageai /ʁa.va.ʒe/	ravageas /ʁa.va.ʒa/	ravagea /ʁa.va.ʒa/	ravageâmes /ʁa.va.ʒam/	ravageâtes /ʁa.va.ʒat/	ravagèrent /ʁa.va.ʒɛʁ/
	future	ravagerai /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁe/	ravageras /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁa/	ravagera /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁa/	ravagerons /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	ravagerez /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁe/	ravageront /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ravagerais /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁɛ/	ravagerais /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁɛ/	ravagerait /ʁa.vaʒ.ʁɛ/	ravagerions /ʁa.va.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	ravageriez /ʁa.va.ʒə.ʁje/	ravageraient /ʁa.vaʒ.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	ravage /ʁa.vaʒ/	ravages /ʁa.vaʒ/	ravage /ʁa.vaʒ/	ravagions /ʁa.va.ʒjɔ̃/	ravagiez /ʁa.va.ʒje/	ravagent /ʁa.vaʒ/
	imperfect2	ravageasse /ʁa.va.ʒas/	ravageasses /ʁa.va.ʒas/	ravageât /ʁa.va.ʒa/	ravageassions /ʁa.va.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	ravageassiez /ʁa.va.ʒa.sje/	ravageassent /ʁa.va.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ravage /ʁa.vaʒ/	—	ravageons /ʁa.va.ʒɔ̃/	ravagez /ʁa.va.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).

Related terms

• ravage
• ravageur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gravera