urger
See also: Urger
English
Etymology
Noun
urger (plural urgers)
- One who urges.
- 1844, Andrew Stevenson, The history of the church and state of Scotland, page 195:
- […] the contrivers, maintainers, and urgers of the service-book, and other grievous innovations […]
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Back-formation from urgent; compare Latin urgeō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /yʁ.ʒe/
Audio: (file)
Verb
urger
- (usually impersonal, informal) to be urgent
- Synonym: presser
- Dépêche-toi, ça urge ! ― Hurry up, it's urgent!
- to hurry, to incite
- Synonym: presser
- 2024 September 11, Greenpeace, À vélo pour la protection de la nature ![1]:
- Face à la crise climatique et au déclin dramatique de la biodiversité, nous urgeons les gouvernements de respecter les engagements en matière de protection et de restauration de la nature et de réglementer les banques et autres institutions financières qui continuent d’injecter des milliards dans des entreprises qui risquent de détruire la biodiversité.
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Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written urge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of urger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | urger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | urgeant /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | urgé /yʁ.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | urge /yʁʒ/ |
urges /yʁʒ/ |
urge /yʁʒ/ |
urgeons /yʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
urgez /yʁ.ʒe/ |
urgent /yʁʒ/ |
| imperfect | urgeais /yʁ.ʒɛ/ |
urgeais /yʁ.ʒɛ/ |
urgeait /yʁ.ʒɛ/ |
urgions /yʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
urgiez /yʁ.ʒje/ |
urgeaient /yʁ.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | urgeai /yʁ.ʒe/ |
urgeas /yʁ.ʒa/ |
urgea /yʁ.ʒa/ |
urgeâmes /yʁ.ʒam/ |
urgeâtes /yʁ.ʒat/ |
urgèrent /yʁ.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | urgerai /yʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
urgeras /yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
urgera /yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
urgerons /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
urgerez /yʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
urgeront /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | urgerais /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
urgerais /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
urgerait /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
urgerions /yʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
urgeriez /yʁ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
urgeraient /yʁ.ʒə.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 | urge /yʁʒ/ |
urges /yʁʒ/ |
urge /yʁʒ/ |
urgions /yʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
urgiez /yʁ.ʒje/ |
urgent /yʁʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | urgeasse /yʁ.ʒas/ |
urgeasses /yʁ.ʒas/ |
urgeât /yʁ.ʒa/ |
urgeassions /yʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
urgeassiez /yʁ.ʒa.sje/ |
urgeassent /yʁ.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | urge /yʁʒ/ |
— | urgeons /yʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
urgez /yʁ.ʒe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “urger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.