farder

See also: färder

French

Etymology 1

from Middle French farder, from Old French farder (“to apply make-up, use cosmetics”), a borrowing from Frankish *farwidōn (“to dye, colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farwjan (“to colour”), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”), Latin pulcher (“beautiful”), Welsh erch (“dark brown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʁ.de/

Verb

farder

1. to disguise.
2. to make up or paint (the face).
3. to represent in a false light; to augment with falsehoods or affectations.

Conjugation

Conjugation of farder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	farder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fardant /faʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fardé /faʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	farde /faʁd/	fardes /faʁd/	farde /faʁd/	fardons /faʁ.dɔ̃/	fardez /faʁ.de/	fardent /faʁd/
	imperfect	fardais /faʁ.dɛ/	fardais /faʁ.dɛ/	fardait /faʁ.dɛ/	fardions /faʁ.djɔ̃/	fardiez /faʁ.dje/	fardaient /faʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	fardai /faʁ.de/	fardas /faʁ.da/	farda /faʁ.da/	fardâmes /faʁ.dam/	fardâtes /faʁ.dat/	fardèrent /faʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	farderai /faʁ.də.ʁe/	farderas /faʁ.də.ʁa/	fardera /faʁ.də.ʁa/	farderons /faʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	farderez /faʁ.də.ʁe/	farderont /faʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	farderais /faʁ.də.ʁɛ/	farderais /faʁ.də.ʁɛ/	farderait /faʁ.də.ʁɛ/	farderions /faʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	farderiez /faʁ.də.ʁje/	farderaient /faʁ.də.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	farde /faʁd/	fardes /faʁd/	farde /faʁd/	fardions /faʁ.djɔ̃/	fardiez /faʁ.dje/	fardent /faʁd/
	imperfect2	fardasse /faʁ.das/	fardasses /faʁ.das/	fardât /faʁ.da/	fardassions /faʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	fardassiez /faʁ.da.sje/	fardassent /faʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	farde /faʁd/	—	fardons /faʁ.dɔ̃/	fardez /faʁ.de/	—
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).

Etymology 2

From Middle French farder, from Old French farder, from Old French farde. More at farde.

Verb

farder

1. to weigh heavily; to be burdensome.
2. to settle or sink downwards.

Further reading

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