ajourer

French

Etymology

From ajour +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒu.ʁe/

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Verb

ajourer

1. (transitive) to perforate

Conjugation

Conjugation of ajourer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ajourer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ajourant /a.ʒu.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ajouré /a.ʒu.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ajoure /a.ʒuʁ/	ajoures /a.ʒuʁ/	ajoure /a.ʒuʁ/	ajourons /a.ʒu.ʁɔ̃/	ajourez /a.ʒu.ʁe/	ajourent /a.ʒuʁ/
	imperfect	ajourais /a.ʒu.ʁɛ/	ajourais /a.ʒu.ʁɛ/	ajourait /a.ʒu.ʁɛ/	ajourions /a.ʒu.ʁjɔ̃/	ajouriez /a.ʒu.ʁje/	ajouraient /a.ʒu.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	ajourai /a.ʒu.ʁe/	ajouras /a.ʒu.ʁa/	ajoura /a.ʒu.ʁa/	ajourâmes /a.ʒu.ʁam/	ajourâtes /a.ʒu.ʁat/	ajourèrent /a.ʒu.ʁɛʁ/
	future	ajourerai /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁe/	ajoureras /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁa/	ajourera /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁa/	ajourerons /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ajourerez /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁe/	ajoureront /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ajourerais /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ajourerais /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ajourerait /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ajourerions /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ajoureriez /a.ʒu.ʁə.ʁje/	ajoureraient /a.ʒu.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	ajoure /a.ʒuʁ/	ajoures /a.ʒuʁ/	ajoure /a.ʒuʁ/	ajourions /a.ʒu.ʁjɔ̃/	ajouriez /a.ʒu.ʁje/	ajourent /a.ʒuʁ/
	imperfect2	ajourasse /a.ʒu.ʁas/	ajourasses /a.ʒu.ʁas/	ajourât /a.ʒu.ʁa/	ajourassions /a.ʒu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	ajourassiez /a.ʒu.ʁa.sje/	ajourassent /a.ʒu.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ajoure /a.ʒuʁ/	—	ajourons /a.ʒu.ʁɔ̃/	ajourez /a.ʒu.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: 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).

Descendants

• → German: ajourieren

Further reading

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