résoudre

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See also: r'sourdre

French

Etymology

From Middle French résouldre, from Old French resoldre, inherited from Latin resolvere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁe.zudʁ/
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Verb

résoudre

  1. (transitive) to resolve (to find a solution to)
    résoudre un problème, une difficulté, un conflit, un mystèreto resolve a problem, a difficulty, a conflict, a mystery
  2. (reflexive, followed by à) to resolve, to make up one's mind
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter VII, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 67; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
      Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs. Et voici que je m’apprête à raconter mes expéditions. Mais que de temps pour m’y résoudre!
      — I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the stories of my expeditions. But how long it has taken me to make up my mind to do so!

Conjugation

This verb also has a rare past participle résous (feminine résoute).

This verb also has a rare past participle résous (feminine résoute).

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