soudre
French
Etymology
Old French soudre, from Latin solvere, present active infinitive of solvō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sudʁ/
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Verb
soudre
- (archaic) resolve
- Synonym: résoudre
- (archaic) pay off
Conjugation
Conjugation of soudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | soudre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | solvant /sɔl.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sous /su/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | sous /su/ | sous /su/ | sout /su/ | solvons /sɔl.vɔ̃/ | solvez /sɔl.ve/ | solvent /sɔlv/ |
| imperfect | solvais /sɔl.vɛ/ | solvais /sɔl.vɛ/ | solvait /sɔl.vɛ/ | solvions /sɔl.vjɔ̃/ | solviez /sɔl.vje/ | solvaient /sɔl.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | solus /sɔ.ly/ | solus /sɔ.ly/ | solut /sɔ.ly/ | solûmes /sɔ.lym/ | solûtes /sɔ.lyt/ | solurent /sɔ.lyʁ/ | |
| future | soudrai /su.dʁe/ | soudras /su.dʁa/ | soudra /su.dʁa/ | soudrons /su.dʁɔ̃/ | soudrez /su.dʁe/ | soudront /su.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | soudrais /su.dʁɛ/ | soudrais /su.dʁɛ/ | soudrait /su.dʁɛ/ | soudrions /su.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | soudriez /su.dʁi.je/ | soudraient /su.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | solve /sɔlv/ | solves /sɔlv/ | solve /sɔlv/ | solvions /sɔl.vjɔ̃/ | solviez /sɔl.vje/ | solvent /sɔlv/ |
| imperfect2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sous /su/ | — | solvons /sɔl.vɔ̃/ | solvez /sɔl.ve/ | — | |
| 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
- “soudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- saure
- sodre
- solre
- sorre
- souldre
Etymology
From Latin solvere, present active infinitive of solvō.
Verb
soudre
- to pay; to pay off (e.g. a debt)
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- French: soudre (archaic)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (soldre)
- soudre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub