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dorer
dorer
French
Verb
dorer
- to gild; to coat something in gold.
 - to brighten up, to brighten something to give it a golden colour.
 - (cooking) to brown, to give food a golden colour by adding an egg yolk.
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of dorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | dorer | avoir doré | |||||
| gerund | en dorant | en ayant doré | |||||
| present participle |  dorant /dɔ.ʁɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  doré /dɔ.ʁe/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  dore /dɔʁ/  | 
 dores /dɔʁ/  | 
 dore /dɔʁ/  | 
 dorons /dɔ.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 dorez /dɔ.ʁe/  | 
 dorent /dɔʁ/  | 
| imperfect |  dorais /dɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
 dorais /dɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
 dorait /dɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
 dorions /dɔ.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 doriez /dɔ.ʁje/  | 
 doraient /dɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  dorai /dɔ.ʁe/  | 
doras /dɔ.ʁa/  | 
dora /dɔ.ʁa/  | 
dorâmes /dɔ.ʁam/  | 
dorâtes /dɔ.ʁat/  | 
dorèrent /dɔ.ʁɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  dorerai /dɔ.ʁə.ʁe/  | 
 doreras /dɔ.ʁə.ʁa/  | 
 dorera /dɔ.ʁə.ʁa/  | 
 dorerons /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 dorerez /dɔ.ʁə.ʁe/  | 
 doreront /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  dorerais /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 dorerais /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 dorerait /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 dorerions /dɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 doreriez /dɔ.ʁə.ʁje/  | 
 doreraient /dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
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|  compound tenses  | 
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  dore /dɔʁ/  | 
 dores /dɔʁ/  | 
 dore /dɔʁ/  | 
 dorions /dɔ.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 doriez /dɔ.ʁje/  | 
 dorent /dɔʁ/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
dorasse /dɔ.ʁas/  | 
dorasses /dɔ.ʁas/  | 
dorât /dɔ.ʁa/  | 
dorassions /dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/  | 
dorassiez /dɔ.ʁa.sje/  | 
dorassent /dɔ.ʁas/  | 
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|  compound tenses  | 
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — |  dore /dɔʁ/  | 
— |  dorons /dɔ.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 dorez /dɔ.ʁe/  | 
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