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English

Etymology

From 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/
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Verb

urger

  1. (usually impersonal, informal) to be urgent
    Synonym: presser
    Dépêche-toi, ça urge ! ― Hurry up, it's urgent!
  2. to hurry, to incite
    Synonym: presser
    • 2024 September 11, Greenpeace, À vélo pour la protection de la nature !‎:
      Face à la crise climatique et au déclin dramatique de la biodiversité, nous urgeons les gouvernements de respecter les engagements en matière de protection et de restauration de la nature et de réglementer les banques et autres institutions financières qui continuent d’injecter des milliards dans des entreprises qui risquent de détruire la biodiversité.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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.

Conjugation of urger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple urger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple urgeant
/yʁ.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle urgé
/yʁ.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present urge
/yʁʒ/ 		urges
/yʁʒ/ 		urge
/yʁʒ/ 		urgeons
/yʁ.ʒɔ̃/ 		urgez
/yʁ.ʒe/ 		urgent
/yʁʒ/
imperfect urgeais
/yʁ.ʒɛ/ 		urgeais
/yʁ.ʒɛ/ 		urgeait
/yʁ.ʒɛ/ 		urgions
/yʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ 		urgiez
/yʁ.ʒje/ 		urgeaient
/yʁ.ʒɛ/
past historic2 urgeai
/yʁ.ʒe/ 		urgeas
/yʁ.ʒa/ 		urgea
/yʁ.ʒa/ 		urgeâmes
/yʁ.ʒam/ 		urgeâtes
/yʁ.ʒat/ 		urgèrent
/yʁ.ʒɛʁ/
future urgerai
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ 		urgeras
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ 		urgera
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ 		urgerons
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ 		urgerez
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ 		urgeront
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional urgerais
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ 		urgerais
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ 		urgerait
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ 		urgerions
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		urgeriez
/yʁ.ʒə.ʁje/ 		urgeraient
/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/ 		urges
/yʁʒ/ 		urge
/yʁʒ/ 		urgions
/yʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ 		urgiez
/yʁ.ʒje/ 		urgent
/yʁʒ/
imperfect2 urgeasse
/yʁ.ʒas/ 		urgeasses
/yʁ.ʒas/ 		urgeât
/yʁ.ʒa/ 		urgeassions
/yʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		urgeassiez
/yʁ.ʒa.sje/ 		urgeassent
/yʁ.ʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — urge
/yʁʒ/ 		— urgeons
/yʁ.ʒɔ̃/ 		urgez
/yʁ.ʒe/ 		—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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