urger
See also: Urger
English
Etymology
urge + -er
Noun
urger (plural urgers)
- One who urges.
- 1844, Andrew Stevenson, The history of the church and state of Scotland (page 195)
- […] the contrivers, maintainers, and urgers of the service-book, and other grievous innovations […]
- 1844, Andrew Stevenson, The history of the church and state of Scotland (page 195)
Anagrams
- Ruger, regur
French
Etymology
Back-formation from urgent; compare Latin urgeō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /yʁ.ʒe/
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Verb
urger
- (usually impersonal, informal) to be urgent
- Dépêche-toi, ça urge ! ― Hurry up, it's urgent!
- Synonym: presser
Usage notes
- Do not confuse this verb with English to urge, which is usually transitive and has an active subject.
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written urge- 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.This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.Personal forms are occasionally found, and conjugate like manger.
Conjugation of urger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | urger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | urgeant /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | urgé /yʁ.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | — | — | urge /yʁʒ/ | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | urgeait /yʁ.ʒɛ/ | — | — | — | |
| past historic2 | — | — | urgea /yʁ.ʒa/ | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | urgera /yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | urgerait /yʁ.ʒə.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 | — | — | urge /yʁʒ/ | — | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | urgeât /yʁ.ʒa/ | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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
- “urger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.