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

  1. (transitive) to twist; to bend
    Je me suis tordu la cheville.
    I twisted my ankle.
  2. (transitive) to wring
  3. (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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • 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).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Dutch: torderen

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