ouvrer

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ovrer, (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  operō, operāre, from the deponent Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin verb operor. Doublet of œuvrer (an analogical form created to avoid the confusion with ouvrir) and opérer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.vʁe/

Verb

ouvrer

1. (transitive, intransitive) to work

Conjugation

Conjugation of ouvrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ouvrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ouvrant /u.vʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ouvré /u.vʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ouvre /uvʁ/	ouvres /uvʁ/	ouvre /uvʁ/	ouvrons /u.vʁɔ̃/	ouvrez /u.vʁe/	ouvrent /uvʁ/
	imperfect	ouvrais /u.vʁɛ/	ouvrais /u.vʁɛ/	ouvrait /u.vʁɛ/	ouvrions /u.vʁi.jɔ̃/	ouvriez /u.vʁi.je/	ouvraient /u.vʁɛ/
	past historic2	ouvrai /u.vʁe/	ouvras /u.vʁa/	ouvra /u.vʁa/	ouvrâmes /u.vʁam/	ouvrâtes /u.vʁat/	ouvrèrent /u.vʁɛʁ/
	future	ouvrerai /u.vʁə.ʁe/	ouvreras /u.vʁə.ʁa/	ouvrera /u.vʁə.ʁa/	ouvrerons /u.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ouvrerez /u.vʁə.ʁe/	ouvreront /u.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ouvrerais /u.vʁə.ʁɛ/	ouvrerais /u.vʁə.ʁɛ/	ouvrerait /u.vʁə.ʁɛ/	ouvrerions /u.vʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ouvreriez /u.vʁə.ʁje/	ouvreraient /u.vʁə.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	ouvre /uvʁ/	ouvres /uvʁ/	ouvre /uvʁ/	ouvrions /u.vʁi.jɔ̃/	ouvriez /u.vʁi.je/	ouvrent /uvʁ/
	imperfect2	ouvrasse /u.vʁas/	ouvrasses /u.vʁas/	ouvrât /u.vʁa/	ouvrassions /u.vʁa.sjɔ̃/	ouvrassiez /u.vʁa.sje/	ouvrassent /u.vʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ouvre /uvʁ/	—	ouvrons /u.vʁɔ̃/	ouvrez /u.vʁe/	—
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).

Synonyms

• travailler

Derived terms

• ouvrable
• ouvré
• ouvreur
• ouvrier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rouvre, verrou

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ovrer (“to work”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  operō, operāre, from the deponent Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin verb operor, operārī (“work, labor”), from opus (“work, accomplishment”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-os- (“work”), from the verbal root *h₃ep- (“to work”).

Verb

ouvrer

1. (Jersey) to knit