corder (plural corders)
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *cordārium. The DCVB argue that it is borrowed from Spanish cordero on the following grounds: it is not attested in Catalan until the fifteenth century, it has existed from the beginning alongside a Castilian-like variant cordero, and its distribution is limited to western dialects.
Coromines argues that it was inherited by Catalan on the following grounds: its distribution is not limited to border regions but rather is general throughout the west – including areas relatively secluded from Castilian influence such as Vall Ferrera – and it is documented since ca. 1400 even in the ‘purest’ Valencian writers, which is about as early as one could expect a western dialectal word to appear in writing, given that written Catalan had been highly standardized till then. As for the Valencian variant cordero, Coromines explains it as a borrowing from local Mozarabic.
corder m (plural corders) (Western)
corder m (plural corders, feminine cordera)
corder
infinitive | simple | corder | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | cordant /kɔʁ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | cordé /kɔʁ.de/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | corde /kɔʁd/ |
cordes /kɔʁd/ |
corde /kɔʁd/ |
cordons /kɔʁ.dɔ̃/ |
cordez /kɔʁ.de/ |
cordent /kɔʁd/ |
imperfect | cordais /kɔʁ.dɛ/ |
cordais /kɔʁ.dɛ/ |
cordait /kɔʁ.dɛ/ |
cordions /kɔʁ.djɔ̃/ |
cordiez /kɔʁ.dje/ |
cordaient /kɔʁ.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | cordai /kɔʁ.de/ |
cordas /kɔʁ.da/ |
corda /kɔʁ.da/ |
cordâmes /kɔʁ.dam/ |
cordâtes /kɔʁ.dat/ |
cordèrent /kɔʁ.dɛʁ/ | |
future | corderai /kɔʁ.də.ʁe/ |
corderas /kɔʁ.də.ʁa/ |
cordera /kɔʁ.də.ʁa/ |
corderons /kɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ |
corderez /kɔʁ.də.ʁe/ |
corderont /kɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | corderais /kɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
corderais /kɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
corderait /kɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
corderions /kɔʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
corderiez /kɔʁ.də.ʁje/ |
corderaient /kɔʁ.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 | corde /kɔʁd/ |
cordes /kɔʁd/ |
corde /kɔʁd/ |
cordions /kɔʁ.djɔ̃/ |
cordiez /kɔʁ.dje/ |
cordent /kɔʁd/ |
imperfect2 | cordasse /kɔʁ.das/ |
cordasses /kɔʁ.das/ |
cordât /kɔʁ.da/ |
cordassions /kɔʁ.da.sjɔ̃/ |
cordassiez /kɔʁ.da.sje/ |
cordassent /kɔʁ.das/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | corde /kɔʁd/ |
— | cordons /kɔʁ.dɔ̃/ |
cordez /kɔʁ.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |