urger

See also: Urger

English

Etymology

From urge +‎ -er.

Noun

urger (plural urgers)

1. 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

• Ruger, regur

French

Etymology

Back-formation from urgent; compare Latin urgeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yʁ.ʒe/

• Audio:

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Verb

urger

1. (usually impersonal, informal) to be urgent

   Synonym: presser

   Dépêche-toi, ça urge ! ― Hurry up, it's urgent!

Usage notes

• Do not confuse this verb with English to urge, which is usually transitive and has an active subject.

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. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular. Personal forms are occasionally found, and conjugate like 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/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	urgeait /yʁ.ʒɛ/	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	urgea /yʁ.ʒa/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	urgera /yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	urgerait /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/	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	urgeât /yʁ.ʒa/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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).

Further reading

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