forer

See also: fører

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin forāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.ʁe/

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Verb

forer

1. to bore; to drill (to make a hole)

Conjugation

Conjugation of forer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	forer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	forant /fɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		foré /fɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fore /fɔʁ/	fores /fɔʁ/	fore /fɔʁ/	forons /fɔ.ʁɔ̃/	forez /fɔ.ʁe/	forent /fɔʁ/
	imperfect	forais /fɔ.ʁɛ/	forais /fɔ.ʁɛ/	forait /fɔ.ʁɛ/	forions /fɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	foriez /fɔ.ʁje/	foraient /fɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	forai /fɔ.ʁe/	foras /fɔ.ʁa/	fora /fɔ.ʁa/	forâmes /fɔ.ʁam/	forâtes /fɔ.ʁat/	forèrent /fɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	forerai /fɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	foreras /fɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	forera /fɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	forerons /fɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	forerez /fɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	foreront /fɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	forerais /fɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	forerais /fɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	forerait /fɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	forerions /fɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	foreriez /fɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	foreraient /fɔ.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	fore /fɔʁ/	fores /fɔʁ/	fore /fɔʁ/	forions /fɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	foriez /fɔ.ʁje/	forent /fɔʁ/
	imperfect2	forasse /fɔ.ʁas/	forasses /fɔ.ʁas/	forât /fɔ.ʁa/	forassions /fɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	forassiez /fɔ.ʁa.sje/	forassent /fɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fore /fɔʁ/	—	forons /fɔ.ʁɔ̃/	forez /fɔ.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

• foreuse

Descendants

• → Romanian: fora

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.rɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.rer]

Verb

forer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of forō