saborder

French

FWOTD – 14 October 2024

Etymology

From sabord +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bɔʁ.de/

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Verb

saborder

1. (nautical, transitive) to scuttle (a ship)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to pull the plug on
   • 2023 May, Luis Alberto Reygada, “Le rêve progressiste, et libre-échangiste, de la gauche latina”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 9:

     Actuellement au pouvoir, son fils, le président Luis Lacalle Pou (élu en novembre 2018), paraît quant à lui, s’être donné pour mission de saborder le traité de 1991.

     As for his son, president Luis Lacalle Pou (elected in November 2018), currently in power, he seems to have taken upon himself the mission of pulling the plug on the 1991 treaty.

Conjugation

Conjugation of saborder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saborder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sabordant /sa.bɔʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sabordé /sa.bɔʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saborde /sa.bɔʁd/	sabordes /sa.bɔʁd/	saborde /sa.bɔʁd/	sabordons /sa.bɔʁ.dɔ̃/	sabordez /sa.bɔʁ.de/	sabordent /sa.bɔʁd/
	imperfect	sabordais /sa.bɔʁ.dɛ/	sabordais /sa.bɔʁ.dɛ/	sabordait /sa.bɔʁ.dɛ/	sabordions /sa.bɔʁ.djɔ̃/	sabordiez /sa.bɔʁ.dje/	sabordaient /sa.bɔʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	sabordai /sa.bɔʁ.de/	sabordas /sa.bɔʁ.da/	saborda /sa.bɔʁ.da/	sabordâmes /sa.bɔʁ.dam/	sabordâtes /sa.bɔʁ.dat/	sabordèrent /sa.bɔʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	saborderai /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁe/	saborderas /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁa/	sabordera /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁa/	saborderons /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	saborderez /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁe/	saborderont /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saborderais /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/	saborderais /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/	saborderait /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/	saborderions /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	saborderiez /sa.bɔʁ.də.ʁje/	saborderaient /sa.bɔʁ.də.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	saborde /sa.bɔʁd/	sabordes /sa.bɔʁd/	saborde /sa.bɔʁd/	sabordions /sa.bɔʁ.djɔ̃/	sabordiez /sa.bɔʁ.dje/	sabordent /sa.bɔʁd/
	imperfect2	sabordasse /sa.bɔʁ.das/	sabordasses /sa.bɔʁ.das/	sabordât /sa.bɔʁ.da/	sabordassions /sa.bɔʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	sabordassiez /sa.bɔʁ.da.sje/	sabordassent /sa.bɔʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saborde /sa.bɔʁd/	—	sabordons /sa.bɔʁ.dɔ̃/	sabordez /sa.bɔʁ.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

• sabordage

See also

• saboter

Further reading

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