ourdir
French
Etymology
From Old French ordir, from Latin ōrdīre, collateral form of ōrdīrī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uʁ.diʁ/
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Verb
ourdir
- (transitive) to warp (set up a weaving frame)
- (transitive, by extension, literary) to plot (set up a plan)
- Synonym: fomenter
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of ourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ourdir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ourdissant /uʁ.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ourdi /uʁ.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ourdis /uʁ.di/ | ourdis /uʁ.di/ | ourdit /uʁ.di/ | ourdissons /uʁ.di.sɔ̃/ | ourdissez /uʁ.di.se/ | ourdissent /uʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect | ourdissais /uʁ.di.sɛ/ | ourdissais /uʁ.di.sɛ/ | ourdissait /uʁ.di.sɛ/ | ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ | ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/ | ourdissaient /uʁ.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ourdis /uʁ.di/ | ourdis /uʁ.di/ | ourdit /uʁ.di/ | ourdîmes /uʁ.dim/ | ourdîtes /uʁ.dit/ | ourdirent /uʁ.diʁ/ | |
| future | ourdirai /uʁ.di.ʁe/ | ourdiras /uʁ.di.ʁa/ | ourdira /uʁ.di.ʁa/ | ourdirons /uʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | ourdirez /uʁ.di.ʁe/ | ourdiront /uʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ourdirais /uʁ.di.ʁɛ/ | ourdirais /uʁ.di.ʁɛ/ | ourdirait /uʁ.di.ʁɛ/ | ourdirions /uʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | ourdiriez /uʁ.di.ʁje/ | ourdiraient /uʁ.di.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 | ourdisse /uʁ.dis/ | ourdisses /uʁ.dis/ | ourdisse /uʁ.dis/ | ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ | ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/ | ourdissent /uʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | ourdisse /uʁ.dis/ | ourdisses /uʁ.dis/ | ourdît /uʁ.di/ | ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ | ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/ | ourdissent /uʁ.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ourdis /uʁ.di/ | — | ourdissons /uʁ.di.sɔ̃/ | ourdissez /uʁ.di.se/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ourdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.