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tourner
tourner
French
Verb
tourner
- to turn (left, right etc.)
- to stir (e.g. ingredients)
- to tour, to go on tour
- to film, to shoot a film
- (computing) to work
- to lathe
Derived terms
Derived terms
Conjugation
Conjugation of tourner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | tourner | avoir tourné | |||||
| gerund | en tournant | en ayant tourné | |||||
| present participle | tournant /tuʁ.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | tourné /tuʁ.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | tourne /tuʁn/ |
tournes /tuʁn/ |
tourne /tuʁn/ |
tournons /tuʁ.nɔ̃/ |
tournez /tuʁ.ne/ |
tournent /tuʁn/ |
| imperfect | tournais /tuʁ.nɛ/ |
tournais /tuʁ.nɛ/ |
tournait /tuʁ.nɛ/ |
tournions /tuʁ.njɔ̃/ |
tourniez /tuʁ.nje/ |
tournaient /tuʁ.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | tournai /tuʁ.ne/ |
tournas /tuʁ.na/ |
tourna /tuʁ.na/ |
tournâmes /tuʁ.nam/ |
tournâtes /tuʁ.nat/ |
tournèrent /tuʁ.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | tournerai /tuʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
tourneras /tuʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
tournera /tuʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
tournerons /tuʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
tournerez /tuʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
tourneront /tuʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | tournerais /tuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
tournerais /tuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
tournerait /tuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
tournerions /tuʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tourneriez /tuʁ.nə.ʁje/ |
tourneraient /tuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | tourne /tuʁn/ |
tournes /tuʁn/ |
tourne /tuʁn/ |
tournions /tuʁ.njɔ̃/ |
tourniez /tuʁ.nje/ |
tournent /tuʁn/ |
| imperfect1 |
tournasse /tuʁ.nas/ |
tournasses /tuʁ.nas/ |
tournât /tuʁ.na/ |
tournassions /tuʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
tournassiez /tuʁ.na.sje/ |
tournassent /tuʁ.nas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | tourne /tuʁn/ |
— | tournons /tuʁ.nɔ̃/ |
tournez /tuʁ.ne/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Descendants
- Spanish: turnar
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French torner.
Verb
tourner
- (intransitive) to turn (to rotate)
- (intransitive) to return (to go back)
- (tourner a) to turn into; to change into
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of tourner
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tourner | avoir tourné | |||||
| gerund | en tournant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | tournant | ||||||
| past participle | tourné | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | tourne | tournes | tourne | tournons | tournez | tournent |
| imperfect | tournois, tournoys | tournois, tournoys | tournoit, tournoyt | tournions, tournyons | tourniez, tournyez | tournoient, tournoyent | |
| past historic | tourna | tournas | tourna | tournasmes | tournastes | tournerent | |
| future | tournerai, tourneray | tourneras | tournera | tournerons | tournerez | tourneront | |
| conditional | tournerois, tourneroys | tournerois, tourneroys | tourneroit, tourneroyt | tournerions, tourneryons | tourneriez, tourneryez | tourneroient, tourneroyent | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | tourne | tournes | tourne | tournons | tournez | tournent |
| imperfect | tournasse | tournasses | tournast | tournassions | tournassiez | tournassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | tourne | — | tournons | tournez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: tourner
References
- tourner on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French torner, from Latin tornō, tornāre, from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “carpenter's tool for drawing a circle; turning lathe”).
Verb
tourner
- (intransitive) to turn