tourer

English

Etymology

tour +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊəɹə/, IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːɹə/
• (General American) enPR: to͝orər, IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tourer (plural tourers)

1. (dated) An open-top or soft-top motor car suitable for touring.

   Synonym: touring car

2. (informal) A touring bicycle.

Derived terms

• grand tourer

 

Translations

motor car

• Italian: torpedo (it) f

touring bicycle

• Dutch: toerfiets (nl) m or f, trekkingfiets m or f, vakantiefiets m or f
• German: Reiserad n

Anagrams

• retour, roture, router

French

Etymology

From tour +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.ʁe/

• Audio:

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Verb

tourer

1. (cooking) perform tourage, perform a turn during lamination in the production of e.g. puff pastry

Conjugation

Conjugation of tourer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tourer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tourant /tu.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		touré /tu.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	toure /tuʁ/	toures /tuʁ/	toure /tuʁ/	tourons /tu.ʁɔ̃/	tourez /tu.ʁe/	tourent /tuʁ/
	imperfect	tourais /tu.ʁɛ/	tourais /tu.ʁɛ/	tourait /tu.ʁɛ/	tourions /tu.ʁjɔ̃/	touriez /tu.ʁje/	touraient /tu.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	tourai /tu.ʁe/	touras /tu.ʁa/	toura /tu.ʁa/	tourâmes /tu.ʁam/	tourâtes /tu.ʁat/	tourèrent /tu.ʁɛʁ/
	future	tourerai /tu.ʁə.ʁe/	toureras /tu.ʁə.ʁa/	tourera /tu.ʁə.ʁa/	tourerons /tu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	tourerez /tu.ʁə.ʁe/	toureront /tu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tourerais /tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	tourerais /tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	tourerait /tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	tourerions /tu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	toureriez /tu.ʁə.ʁje/	toureraient /tu.ʁə.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	toure /tuʁ/	toures /tuʁ/	toure /tuʁ/	tourions /tu.ʁjɔ̃/	touriez /tu.ʁje/	tourent /tuʁ/
	imperfect2	tourasse /tu.ʁas/	tourasses /tu.ʁas/	tourât /tu.ʁa/	tourassions /tu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	tourassiez /tu.ʁa.sje/	tourassent /tu.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	toure /tuʁ/	—	tourons /tu.ʁɔ̃/	tourez /tu.ʁe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “tourer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• outrer, retour, router, trouer

Swedish

Noun

tourer

1. indefinite plural of tour