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ourdir
ourdir
French
Verb
ourdir
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | ourdir | avoir ourdi | |||||
| gerund | en ourdissant | en ayant ourdi | |||||
| present participle |  ourdissant /uʁ.di.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  ourdi /uʁ.di/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  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/  | 
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| past historic1 |  ourdis /uʁ.di/  | 
ourdis /uʁ.di/  | 
ourdit /uʁ.di/  | 
ourdîmes /uʁ.dim/  | 
ourdîtes /uʁ.dit/  | 
ourdirent /uʁ.diʁ/  | 
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| 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/  | 
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| 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/  | 
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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 |  ourdisse /uʁ.dis/  | 
 ourdisses /uʁ.dis/  | 
 ourdisse /uʁ.dis/  | 
 ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/  | 
 ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/  | 
 ourdissent /uʁ.dis/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
ourdisse /uʁ.dis/  | 
ourdisses /uʁ.dis/  | 
ourdît /uʁ.di/  | 
ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/  | 
ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/  | 
ourdissent /uʁ.dis/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  ourdis /uʁ.di/  | 
— |  ourdissons /uʁ.di.sɔ̃/  | 
 ourdissez /uʁ.di.se/  | 
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