dorer

French

Etymology

From Old French dorer, inherited from Late Latin deaurāre, present active infinitive of deaurō, from Latin aurō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ʁe/

• Audio:

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Verb

dorer

1. to gild; to coat something in gold
2. to brighten up, to brighten something to give it a golden colour
3. (cooking) to brown, to give food a golden colour by adding an egg yolk

Conjugation

Conjugation of dorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dorer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dorant /dɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		doré /dɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dore /dɔʁ/	dores /dɔʁ/	dore /dɔʁ/	dorons /dɔ.ʁɔ̃/	dorez /dɔ.ʁe/	dorent /dɔʁ/
	imperfect	dorais /dɔ.ʁɛ/	dorais /dɔ.ʁɛ/	dorait /dɔ.ʁɛ/	dorions /dɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	doriez /dɔ.ʁje/	doraient /dɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	dorai /dɔ.ʁe/	doras /dɔ.ʁa/	dora /dɔ.ʁa/	dorâmes /dɔ.ʁam/	dorâtes /dɔ.ʁat/	dorèrent /dɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	dorerai /dɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	doreras /dɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	dorera /dɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	dorerons /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	dorerez /dɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	doreront /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dorerais /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	dorerais /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	dorerait /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	dorerions /dɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	doreriez /dɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	doreraient /dɔ.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	dore /dɔʁ/	dores /dɔʁ/	dore /dɔʁ/	dorions /dɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	doriez /dɔ.ʁje/	dorent /dɔʁ/
	imperfect2	dorasse /dɔ.ʁas/	dorasses /dɔ.ʁas/	dorât /dɔ.ʁa/	dorassions /dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	dorassiez /dɔ.ʁa.sje/	dorassent /dɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dore /dɔʁ/	—	dorons /dɔ.ʁɔ̃/	dorez /dɔ.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).

Derived terms

• cage dorée
• chacal doré
• dorage
• doré
• dorer la pilule
• doreur
• doroir
• dorure
• douche dorée
• jeunesse dorée
• parachute doré
• prison dorée
• redorer
• se dorer la pilule
• spermophile à mante dorée des Cascades

 

Related terms

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ordre, roder, rôder

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Nauruan

Noun

dorer

1. word

Derived terms

• dorerin "language of"
  • Examples:

dorerin Naoero "language of Nauru" = Nauruan

dorerin Norwei "language of Norway" = Norwegian

• edorer "language"