ferrer

French

From Latin ferrum (“iron”) + infinitive ending -er (compare Spanish herrar)

ferrer

To clad in iron (transitive), to be clad in iron (intransitive).
To shoe (a horse).
To clad in some metal, not necessarily iron: “ferrer d’or” for “to clad in gold”.
To hook (a fish)

Conjugation of ferrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		ferrer			avoir or être ferré
gerund		en ferrant			en ayant ferré or en étant ferré
present participle		ferrant
past participle		ferré
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	ferre	ferres	ferre	ferrons	ferrez	ferrent
	imperfect	ferrais	ferrais	ferrait	ferrions	ferriez	ferraient
	past historic¹	ferrai	ferras	ferra	ferrâmes	ferrâtes	ferrèrent
	future	ferrerai	ferreras	ferrera	ferrerons	ferrerez	ferreront
	conditional	ferrerais	ferrerais	ferrerait	ferrerions	ferreriez	ferreraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	ferre	ferres	ferre	ferrions	ferriez	ferrent
simple tenses	imperfect¹	ferrasse	ferrasses	ferrât	ferrassions	ferrassiez	ferrassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	ferre	—	ferrons	ferrez	—
¹literary tenses