tordre
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French tordre, tortre, from Vulgar Latin *torcĕre, from Latin torquēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔʁdʁ/
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Verb
tordre
- (transitive) to twist; to bend
- Je me suis tordu la cheville.
- I twisted my ankle.
- (transitive) to wring
- (reflexive) to writhe
- se tordre de rire ― to be in stitches
- se tordre de douleur ― to writhe in pain
Conjugation
Conjugation of tordre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tordre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tordant /tɔʁ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tordu /tɔʁ.dy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tords /tɔʁ/ |
tords /tɔʁ/ |
tord /tɔʁ/ |
tordons /tɔʁ.dɔ̃/ |
tordez /tɔʁ.de/ |
tordent /tɔʁd/ |
| imperfect | tordais /tɔʁ.dɛ/ |
tordais /tɔʁ.dɛ/ |
tordait /tɔʁ.dɛ/ |
tordions /tɔʁ.djɔ̃/ |
tordiez /tɔʁ.dje/ |
tordaient /tɔʁ.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tordis /tɔʁ.di/ |
tordis /tɔʁ.di/ |
tordit /tɔʁ.di/ |
tordîmes /tɔʁ.dim/ |
tordîtes /tɔʁ.dit/ |
tordirent /tɔʁ.diʁ/ | |
| future | tordrai /tɔʁ.dʁe/ |
tordras /tɔʁ.dʁa/ |
tordra /tɔʁ.dʁa/ |
tordrons /tɔʁ.dʁɔ̃/ |
tordrez /tɔʁ.dʁe/ |
tordront /tɔʁ.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tordrais /tɔʁ.dʁɛ/ |
tordrais /tɔʁ.dʁɛ/ |
tordrait /tɔʁ.dʁɛ/ |
tordrions /tɔʁ.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
tordriez /tɔʁ.dʁi.je/ |
tordraient /tɔʁ.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | torde /tɔʁd/ |
tordes /tɔʁd/ |
torde /tɔʁd/ |
tordions /tɔʁ.djɔ̃/ |
tordiez /tɔʁ.dje/ |
tordent /tɔʁd/ |
| imperfect2 | tordisse /tɔʁ.dis/ |
tordisses /tɔʁ.dis/ |
tordît /tɔʁ.di/ |
tordissions /tɔʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
tordissiez /tɔʁ.di.sje/ |
tordissent /tɔʁ.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tords /tɔʁ/ |
— | tordons /tɔʁ.dɔ̃/ |
tordez /tɔʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: torderen
Further reading
- “tordre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.