tourner
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle French tourner, from Old French torner, from Latin tornāre (“turn”).
Pronunciation
Verb
tourner
- to turn (left, right etc.)
- to stir (e.g. ingredients)
- to tour, to go on tour
- (film) to film, to shoot a film
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.)
- Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur.
- To run a program on one's computer.
- to lathe
- to go bad (food)
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | tourner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tournant /tuʁ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tourné /tuʁ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | tournai /tuʁ.ne/ |
tournas /tuʁ.na/ |
tourna /tuʁ.na/ |
tournâmes /tuʁ.nam/ |
tournâtes /tuʁ.nat/ |
tournèrent /tuʁ.nɛʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (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 | tourne /tuʁn/ |
tournes /tuʁn/ |
tourne /tuʁn/ |
tournions /tuʁ.njɔ̃/ |
tourniez /tuʁ.nje/ |
tournent /tuʁn/ |
| imperfect2 | tournasse /tuʁ.nas/ |
tournasses /tuʁ.nas/ |
tournât /tuʁ.na/ |
tournassions /tuʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
tournassiez /tuʁ.na.sje/ |
tournassent /tuʁ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tourne /tuʁn/ |
— | tournons /tuʁ.nɔ̃/ |
tournez /tuʁ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Conjugation of tourner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
- avoir la tête qui tourne
- avoir l’esprit mal tourné
- détourner
- faire tourner en bourrique
- faire tourner le monde
- la roue tourne
- ne pas tourner rond
- œuf tourné
- se tourner les pouces
- tournage
- tournée
- tourner à vide
- tourner au vinaigre
- tourner autour du pot
- tourner bride
- tourner casaque
- tourner court
- tourner de l’œil
- tourner en dérision
- tourner en ridicule
- tourner en rond
- tourner la page
- tourner le dos
- tourner les talons
- tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche
- tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche
- tournure
Descendants
Further reading
- “tourner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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.
| infinitive | simple | tourner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | tournant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tourné | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | 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 | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | 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 | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tourne | — | tournons | tournez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Conjugation of tourner
Descendants
- French: tourner
References
- tourner on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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”).
Pronunciation
Verb
tourner
- (intransitive) to turn
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