ourdir

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *ōrdīre, from Latin ōrdīrī, present active infinitive of ōrdior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uʁ.diʁ/

Verb

ourdir

1. (transitive) to warp (set up a weaving frame)
2. (transitive, by extension, literary) to plot (set up a plan)

   Synonym: fomenter

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of ourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ourdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ourdissant /uʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ourdi /uʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ourdis /uʁ.di/	ourdis /uʁ.di/	ourdit /uʁ.di/	ourdissons /uʁ.di.sɔ̃/	ourdissez /uʁ.di.se/	ourdissent /uʁ.dis/
	imperfect	ourdissais /uʁ.di.sɛ/	ourdissais /uʁ.di.sɛ/	ourdissait /uʁ.di.sɛ/	ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/	ourdissaient /uʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	ourdis /uʁ.di/	ourdis /uʁ.di/	ourdit /uʁ.di/	ourdîmes /uʁ.dim/	ourdîtes /uʁ.dit/	ourdirent /uʁ.diʁ/
	future	ourdirai /uʁ.di.ʁe/	ourdiras /uʁ.di.ʁa/	ourdira /uʁ.di.ʁa/	ourdirons /uʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	ourdirez /uʁ.di.ʁe/	ourdiront /uʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ourdirais /uʁ.di.ʁɛ/	ourdirais /uʁ.di.ʁɛ/	ourdirait /uʁ.di.ʁɛ/	ourdirions /uʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	ourdiriez /uʁ.di.ʁje/	ourdiraient /uʁ.di.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	ourdisse /uʁ.dis/	ourdisses /uʁ.dis/	ourdisse /uʁ.dis/	ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/	ourdissent /uʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	ourdisse /uʁ.dis/	ourdisses /uʁ.dis/	ourdît /uʁ.di/	ourdissions /uʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	ourdissiez /uʁ.di.sje/	ourdissent /uʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ourdis /uʁ.di/	—	ourdissons /uʁ.di.sɔ̃/	ourdissez /uʁ.di.se/	—
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

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