ordurer
French
Etymology
ordure + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔʁ.dy.ʁe/
Verb
ordurer
- (intransitive) to leave waste, to soil, to defecate
- 1880, Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif
- Ils ordurent partout, sauf le respect que je vous dois.
- They’ll relieve themselves anywhere, if you’ll pardon my saying so.
- 1880, Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif
Conjugation
Conjugation of ordurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ordurer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ordurant /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | orduré /ɔʁ.dy.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ordure /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | ordures /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | ordure /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | ordurons /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɔ̃/ | ordurez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁe/ | ordurent /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ |
| imperfect | ordurais /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɛ/ | ordurais /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɛ/ | ordurait /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɛ/ | ordurions /ɔʁ.dy.ʁjɔ̃/ | orduriez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁje/ | orduraient /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ordurai /ɔʁ.dy.ʁe/ | orduras /ɔʁ.dy.ʁa/ | ordura /ɔʁ.dy.ʁa/ | ordurâmes /ɔʁ.dy.ʁam/ | ordurâtes /ɔʁ.dy.ʁat/ | ordurèrent /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | ordurerai /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁe/ | ordureras /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁa/ | ordurera /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁa/ | ordurerons /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | ordurerez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁe/ | ordureront /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ordurerais /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | ordurerais /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | ordurerait /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | ordurerions /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ordureriez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁje/ | ordureraient /ɔʁ.dy.ʁə.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 | ordure /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | ordures /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | ordure /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | ordurions /ɔʁ.dy.ʁjɔ̃/ | orduriez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁje/ | ordurent /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | ordurasse /ɔʁ.dy.ʁas/ | ordurasses /ɔʁ.dy.ʁas/ | ordurât /ɔʁ.dy.ʁa/ | ordurassions /ɔʁ.dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | ordurassiez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁa.sje/ | ordurassent /ɔʁ.dy.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ordure /ɔʁ.dyʁ/ | — | ordurons /ɔʁ.dy.ʁɔ̃/ | ordurez /ɔʁ.dy.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- ordure
Further reading
- “ordurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.