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ouvrer
ouvrer
French
Alternative forms
Verb
ouvrer
- to work
Conjugation
Conjugation of ouvrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | ouvrer | avoir ouvré | |||||
| gerund | en ouvrant | en ayant ouvré | |||||
| present participle | ouvrant /u.vʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | ouvré /u.vʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | ouvre /uvʁ/ |
ouvres /uvʁ/ |
ouvre /uvʁ/ |
ouvrons /u.vʁɔ̃/ |
ouvrez /u.vʁe/ |
ouvrent /uvʁ/ |
| imperfect | ouvrais /u.vʁɛ/ |
ouvrais /u.vʁɛ/ |
ouvrait /u.vʁɛ/ |
ouvrions /u.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
ouvriez /u.vʁi.je/ |
ouvraient /u.vʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | ouvrai /u.vʁe/ |
ouvras /u.vʁa/ |
ouvra /u.vʁa/ |
ouvrâmes /u.vʁam/ |
ouvrâtes /u.vʁat/ |
ouvrèrent /u.vʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | ouvrerai /u.vʁə.ʁe/ |
ouvreras /u.vʁə.ʁa/ |
ouvrera /u.vʁə.ʁa/ |
ouvrerons /u.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
ouvrerez /u.vʁə.ʁe/ |
ouvreront /u.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | ouvrerais /u.vʁə.ʁɛ/ |
ouvrerais /u.vʁə.ʁɛ/ |
ouvrerait /u.vʁə.ʁɛ/ |
ouvrerions /u.vʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ouvreriez /u.vʁə.ʁje/ |
ouvreraient /u.vʁə.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 | ouvre /uvʁ/ |
ouvres /uvʁ/ |
ouvre /uvʁ/ |
ouvrions /u.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
ouvriez /u.vʁi.je/ |
ouvrent /uvʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
ouvrasse /u.vʁas/ |
ouvrasses /u.vʁas/ |
ouvrât /u.vʁa/ |
ouvrassions /u.vʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
ouvrassiez /u.vʁa.sje/ |
ouvrassent /u.vʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | ouvre /uvʁ/ |
— | ouvrons /u.vʁɔ̃/ |
ouvrez /u.vʁe/ |
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Etymology
From Old French ovrer (“to work”), from Late Latin operō, operāre, from the deponent Classical Latin verb operor, operārī (“work, labor”), from opus (“work, accomplishment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-os- (“work”), from the verbal root *h₃ep- (“to work”).
Verb
ouvrer