roder

See also: Roder, rôder, and røder

Danish

Verb

roder

1. present of rode

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

roder

1. inflection of rood:
   1. predicative comparative degree
   2. indefinite neuter singular comparative degree

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rōdere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.de/

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Verb

roder

1. (transitive) to polish, polish up
2. (transitive) to wear in (a motor), to run in, to put through its paces
3. (transitive) to polish up, hone (skills)

Conjugation

Conjugation of roder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	roder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rodant /ʁɔ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rodé /ʁɔ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rode /ʁɔd/	rodes /ʁɔd/	rode /ʁɔd/	rodons /ʁɔ.dɔ̃/	rodez /ʁɔ.de/	rodent /ʁɔd/
	imperfect	rodais /ʁɔ.dɛ/	rodais /ʁɔ.dɛ/	rodait /ʁɔ.dɛ/	rodions /ʁɔ.djɔ̃/	rodiez /ʁɔ.dje/	rodaient /ʁɔ.dɛ/
	past historic2	rodai /ʁɔ.de/	rodas /ʁɔ.da/	roda /ʁɔ.da/	rodâmes /ʁɔ.dam/	rodâtes /ʁɔ.dat/	rodèrent /ʁɔ.dɛʁ/
	future	roderai /ʁɔ.dʁe/	roderas /ʁɔ.dʁa/	rodera /ʁɔ.dʁa/	roderons /ʁɔ.dʁɔ̃/	roderez /ʁɔ.dʁe/	roderont /ʁɔ.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	roderais /ʁɔ.dʁɛ/	roderais /ʁɔ.dʁɛ/	roderait /ʁɔ.dʁɛ/	roderions /ʁɔ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	roderiez /ʁɔ.də.ʁje/	roderaient /ʁɔ.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	rode /ʁɔd/	rodes /ʁɔd/	rode /ʁɔd/	rodions /ʁɔ.djɔ̃/	rodiez /ʁɔ.dje/	rodent /ʁɔd/
	imperfect2	rodasse /ʁɔ.das/	rodasses /ʁɔ.das/	rodât /ʁɔ.da/	rodassions /ʁɔ.da.sjɔ̃/	rodassiez /ʁɔ.da.sje/	rodassent /ʁɔ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rode /ʁɔd/	—	rodons /ʁɔ.dɔ̃/	rodez /ʁɔ.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

• rodoir
• rodage

See also

• rôder

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dorer, ordre

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German roder, from Old Saxon *rōthar, from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːdɛr

Noun

roder n

1. a rudder

Declension

Declension of roder
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	roder	rodret	roder	rodren
Genitive	roders	rodrets	roders	rodrens

Further reading

• roder in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• order