different between envisage vs envisager

English

Etymology

From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?z?d?/, /?n?v?z?d?/

Verb

envisage (third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged)

1. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
   • 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated

     From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

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Translations

Further reading

• envisage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• envisage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Verb

envisage

1. first-person singular present indicative of envisager
2. third-person singular present indicative of envisager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
5. second-person singular imperative of envisager

Anagrams

• vengeais

English

Etymology

envisage +? -er

Noun

envisager (plural envisagers)

1. One who envisages.

French

Etymology

en- +? visage +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.vi.za.?e/

Verb

envisager

1. to envisage; to contemplate.
   • 1991, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence

     Il s'agit d'une possibilité envisagée, et si l'on prend des mesures, je ne crois pas cela provoquerait un exode massif de sociétés canadiennes.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written envisage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

• envisageable

Further reading

• “envisager” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• vengerais