soudre

French

Etymology

From Old French soudre, from Latin solvere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sudʁ/

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Verb

soudre

1. (archaic) resolve

   Synonym: résoudre

2. (archaic) pay off

Conjugation

Conjugation of soudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	soudre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	solvant /sɔl.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sous /su/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sous /su/	sous /su/	sout /su/	solvons /sɔl.vɔ̃/	solvez /sɔl.ve/	solvent /sɔlv/
	imperfect	solvais /sɔl.vɛ/	solvais /sɔl.vɛ/	solvait /sɔl.vɛ/	solvions /sɔl.vjɔ̃/	solviez /sɔl.vje/	solvaient /sɔl.vɛ/
	past historic2	solus /sɔ.ly/	solus /sɔ.ly/	solut /sɔ.ly/	solûmes /sɔ.lym/	solûtes /sɔ.lyt/	solurent /sɔ.lyʁ/
	future	soudrai /su.dʁe/	soudras /su.dʁa/	soudra /su.dʁa/	soudrons /su.dʁɔ̃/	soudrez /su.dʁe/	soudront /su.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soudrais /su.dʁɛ/	soudrais /su.dʁɛ/	soudrait /su.dʁɛ/	soudrions /su.dʁi.jɔ̃/	soudriez /su.dʁi.je/	soudraient /su.dʁɛ/
(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	solve /sɔlv/	solves /sɔlv/	solve /sɔlv/	solvions /sɔl.vjɔ̃/	solviez /sɔl.vje/	solvent /sɔlv/
	imperfect2	—	—	—	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sous /su/	—	solvons /sɔl.vɔ̃/	solvez /sɔl.ve/	—
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).

Old French

Alternative forms

• saure
• sodre
• solre
• sorre
• souldre

Etymology

From Latin solvere, present active infinitive of solvō.

Verb

soudre

1. to pay; to pay off (e.g. a debt)

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• French: soudre (archaic)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (soldre)
• soudre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub