urger

English

Etymology

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

French

Etymology

Back-formation from urgent; compare Latin urgeō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /yʁ.ʒe/

Verb

urger

  1. (usually impersonal, informal) To be urgent.
    Dépêche-toi, ça urge ! — Hurry up, it's urgent!
    Synonym: presser

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)
present participle urgeant
/yʁ.ʒɑ̃/
past participle urgé
/yʁ.ʒe/
infinitive
simple urger
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple urgeant
/yʁ.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle 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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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