saborder
French
FWOTD – 14 October 2024
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.bɔʁ.de/
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Verb
saborder
- (nautical, transitive) to scuttle (a ship)
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “saborder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.