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Webster 1913 Edition
Challenger
Chal′len-ger
,Noun.
One who challenges.
Webster 1828 Edition
Challenger
CHALLENGER
,Noun.
1.
One who challenges; one who invites to a single combat; one who calls on another by way of defiance.2.
One who claims superiority; one who claims any thing as his right, or makes pretensions to it.3.
One who calls a juror, or a jury, from the trial of his cause.Definition 2024
Challenger
Challenger
See also: challenger
English
Proper noun
Challenger
- A space shuttle, named after the HMS Challenger (1858), destroyed on January 28, 1986 with loss of its seven-member crew.
Translations
challenger
challenger
See also: Challenger
English
Noun
challenger (plural challengers)
- One who challenges.
- One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
Synonyms
Translations
one who challenges
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French
Verb
challenger
- to challenge
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written challenge- 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 challenger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | challenger | avoir challengé | |||||
| gerund | en challengeant | en ayant challengé | |||||
| present participle | challengeant /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | challengé /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
challenges /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
challengeons /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
challengez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
challengent /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | challengeais /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
challengeais /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
challengeait /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
challengions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
challengiez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒje/ |
challengeaient /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | challengeai /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
challengeas /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa/ |
challengea /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa/ |
challengeâmes /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒam/ |
challengeâtes /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒat/ |
challengèrent /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | challengerai /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
challengeras /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
challengera /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
challengerons /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
challengerez /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
challengeront /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | challengerais /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
challengerais /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
challengerait /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
challengerions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
challengeriez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
challengeraient /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
challenges /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
challengions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
challengiez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒje/ |
challengent /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
challengeasse /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒas/ |
challengeasses /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒas/ |
challengeât /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa/ |
challengeassions /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
challengeassiez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
challengeassent /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | challenge /ʃa.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
— | challengeons /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
challengez /ʃa.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
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