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!

2. to hurry, to incite

   Synonym: presser

   • 2024 September 11, Greenpeace, À vélo pour la protection de la nature !‎^[1]:

     Face à la crise climatique et au déclin dramatique de la biodiversité, nous urgeons les gouvernements de respecter les engagements en matière de protection et de restauration de la nature et de réglementer les banques et autres institutions financières qui continuent d’injecter des milliards dans des entreprises qui risquent de détruire la biodiversité.

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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.

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/	urges /yʁʒ/	urge /yʁʒ/	urgeons /yʁ.ʒɔ̃/	urgez /yʁ.ʒe/	urgent /yʁʒ/
	imperfect	urgeais /yʁ.ʒɛ/	urgeais /yʁ.ʒɛ/	urgeait /yʁ.ʒɛ/	urgions /yʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	urgiez /yʁ.ʒje/	urgeaient /yʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	urgeai /yʁ.ʒe/	urgeas /yʁ.ʒa/	urgea /yʁ.ʒa/	urgeâmes /yʁ.ʒam/	urgeâtes /yʁ.ʒat/	urgèrent /yʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	urgerai /yʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	urgeras /yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	urgera /yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	urgerons /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	urgerez /yʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	urgeront /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	urgerais /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	urgerais /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	urgerait /yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	urgerions /yʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	urgeriez /yʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	urgeraient /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/	urges /yʁʒ/	urge /yʁʒ/	urgions /yʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	urgiez /yʁ.ʒje/	urgent /yʁʒ/
	imperfect2	urgeasse /yʁ.ʒas/	urgeasses /yʁ.ʒas/	urgeât /yʁ.ʒa/	urgeassions /yʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	urgeassiez /yʁ.ʒa.sje/	urgeassent /yʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	urge /yʁʒ/	—	urgeons /yʁ.ʒɔ̃/	urgez /yʁ.ʒe/	—
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.