voyager

English

Etymology

From voyage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

voyager (plural voyagers)

  1. A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.
    • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      This rudeness and official punctilio, however, brought forth a storm of protest from my fellow voyagers.

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Translations

French

Etymology

From voyage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vwa.ja.ʒe/
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Verb

voyager

  1. to travel, to voyage
    • 1986, Desireless, “Voyage, Voyage”, in François:
      Voyage, voyage / Plus loin que la nuit et le jour (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour
      Voyage, voyage / Further than the night and the day (voyage, voyage) / Voyage (voyage) / In the unheard-of space of love

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written voyage- 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 voyager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple voyager
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple voyageant
/vwa.ja.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle voyagé
/vwa.ja.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		voyages
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		voyageons
/vwa.ja.ʒɔ̃/ 		voyagez
/vwa.ja.ʒe/ 		voyagent
/vwa.jaʒ/
imperfect voyageais
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/ 		voyageais
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/ 		voyageait
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/ 		voyagions
/vwa.ja.ʒjɔ̃/ 		voyagiez
/vwa.ja.ʒje/ 		voyageaient
/vwa.ja.ʒɛ/
past historic2 voyageai
/vwa.ja.ʒe/ 		voyageas
/vwa.ja.ʒa/ 		voyagea
/vwa.ja.ʒa/ 		voyageâmes
/vwa.ja.ʒam/ 		voyageâtes
/vwa.ja.ʒat/ 		voyagèrent
/vwa.ja.ʒɛʁ/
future voyagerai
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁe/ 		voyageras
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁa/ 		voyagera
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁa/ 		voyagerons
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ 		voyagerez
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁe/ 		voyageront
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional voyagerais
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/ 		voyagerais
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/ 		voyagerait
/vwa.jaʒ.ʁɛ/ 		voyagerions
/vwa.ja.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		voyageriez
/vwa.ja.ʒə.ʁje/ 		voyageraient
/vwa.jaʒ.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 voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		voyages
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		voyagions
/vwa.ja.ʒjɔ̃/ 		voyagiez
/vwa.ja.ʒje/ 		voyagent
/vwa.jaʒ/
imperfect2 voyageasse
/vwa.ja.ʒas/ 		voyageasses
/vwa.ja.ʒas/ 		voyageât
/vwa.ja.ʒa/ 		voyageassions
/vwa.ja.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		voyageassiez
/vwa.ja.ʒa.sje/ 		voyageassent
/vwa.ja.ʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — voyage
/vwa.jaʒ/ 		— voyageons
/vwa.ja.ʒɔ̃/ 		voyagez
/vwa.ja.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).

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