ourler

French

Etymology

From Old French orler, from Vulgar Latin *orulāre, from *orula, diminutive of Latin ora. Compare Italian orlare, Spanish orlar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uʁ.le/

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Verb

ourler

1. to hem

Conjugation

Conjugation of ourler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ourler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ourlant /uʁ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ourlé /uʁ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ourle /uʁl/	ourles /uʁl/	ourle /uʁl/	ourlons /uʁ.lɔ̃/	ourlez /uʁ.le/	ourlent /uʁl/
	imperfect	ourlais /uʁ.lɛ/	ourlais /uʁ.lɛ/	ourlait /uʁ.lɛ/	ourlions /uʁ.ljɔ̃/	ourliez /uʁ.lje/	ourlaient /uʁ.lɛ/
	past historic2	ourlai /uʁ.le/	ourlas /uʁ.la/	ourla /uʁ.la/	ourlâmes /uʁ.lam/	ourlâtes /uʁ.lat/	ourlèrent /uʁ.lɛʁ/
	future	ourlerai /uʁ.lə.ʁe/	ourleras /uʁ.lə.ʁa/	ourlera /uʁ.lə.ʁa/	ourlerons /uʁ.lə.ʁɔ̃/	ourlerez /uʁ.lə.ʁe/	ourleront /uʁ.lə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ourlerais /uʁ.lə.ʁɛ/	ourlerais /uʁ.lə.ʁɛ/	ourlerait /uʁ.lə.ʁɛ/	ourlerions /uʁ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	ourleriez /uʁ.lə.ʁje/	ourleraient /uʁ.lə.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	ourle /uʁl/	ourles /uʁl/	ourle /uʁl/	ourlions /uʁ.ljɔ̃/	ourliez /uʁ.lje/	ourlent /uʁl/
	imperfect2	ourlasse /uʁ.las/	ourlasses /uʁ.las/	ourlât /uʁ.la/	ourlassions /uʁ.la.sjɔ̃/	ourlassiez /uʁ.la.sje/	ourlassent /uʁ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ourle /uʁl/	—	ourlons /uʁ.lɔ̃/	ourlez /uʁ.le/	—
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).

Related terms

• orle

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rouler