tourer
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Received Pronunciation) /ˈtʊəɹə/, /ˈtɔːɹə/
- (General American) enPR: to͝orər, IPA(key): /ˈtʊɹɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
tourer (plural tourers)
- (dated) An open-top or soft-top motor car suitable for touring.
- Synonym: touring car
- (informal) A touring bicycle.
Derived terms
Translations
touring bicycle
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tu.ʁe/
Audio: (file)
Verb
tourer
- (cooking) perform tourage, perform a turn during lamination in the production of e.g. puff pastry
Conjugation
Conjugation of tourer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tourer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tourant /tu.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | touré /tu.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | toure /tuʁ/ |
toures /tuʁ/ |
toure /tuʁ/ |
tourons /tu.ʁɔ̃/ |
tourez /tu.ʁe/ |
tourent /tuʁ/ |
| imperfect | tourais /tu.ʁɛ/ |
tourais /tu.ʁɛ/ |
tourait /tu.ʁɛ/ |
tourions /tu.ʁjɔ̃/ |
touriez /tu.ʁje/ |
touraient /tu.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tourai /tu.ʁe/ |
touras /tu.ʁa/ |
toura /tu.ʁa/ |
tourâmes /tu.ʁam/ |
tourâtes /tu.ʁat/ |
tourèrent /tu.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | tourerai /tu.ʁə.ʁe/ |
toureras /tu.ʁə.ʁa/ |
tourera /tu.ʁə.ʁa/ |
tourerons /tu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
tourerez /tu.ʁə.ʁe/ |
toureront /tu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tourerais /tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
tourerais /tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
tourerait /tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
tourerions /tu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
toureriez /tu.ʁə.ʁje/ |
toureraient /tu.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 | toure /tuʁ/ |
toures /tuʁ/ |
toure /tuʁ/ |
tourions /tu.ʁjɔ̃/ |
touriez /tu.ʁje/ |
tourent /tuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | tourasse /tu.ʁas/ |
tourasses /tu.ʁas/ |
tourât /tu.ʁa/ |
tourassions /tu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
tourassiez /tu.ʁa.sje/ |
tourassent /tu.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | toure /tuʁ/ |
— | tourons /tu.ʁɔ̃/ |
tourez /tu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “tourer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Swedish
Noun
tourer
- indefinite plural of tour