French

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Etymology

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From dé- +‎ gourd +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.ɡuʁ.diʁ/
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Verb

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dégourdir

  1. (reflexive) to warm up (one's fingers etc); to stretch (one's legs)
  2. (transitive) to teach a thing or two, knock the rough edges off

Conjugation

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This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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