funder
See also: FUNDER
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funder (plural funders)
- One who funds.
- 1987 May 9, Gordon Gottlieb, Richard Burns, Sue Hyde, “Homocrats and Liberationists: Burns and Hyde Consider the Community's Institutions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
- I think funding sources do have an impact on the political direction of any organization. An organization that is not politically palatable to the funder is going to lose the funder. That has had an impact on the direction of the gay liberation event.
- 2024 February 7, “Network News: NR seeks bidders for Scottish OLE”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 10:
- Network Rail's funder in Scotland, Transport Scotland, published a plan in 2020 saying that by 2035 the rail routes to Aberdeen (and to Inverness, Tweedbank and Carlisle via Kilmarnock) would be electrified.
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funder
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funder
- to melt
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funder
- (Anglo-Norman) to found
- (Anglo-Norman) to build; to construct; to make
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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of funder (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | funder | avoir fundé | |||||
gerund | en fundant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | fundant | ||||||
past participle | fundé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | funt | fundes | funde | fundons | fundez | fundent |
imperfect | fundoie, fundeie, fundoe, fundeve | fundoies, fundeies, fundoes, fundeves | fundoit, fundeit, fundot, fundeve | fundiiens, fundiens | fundiiez, fundiez | fundoient, fundeient, fundoent, fundevent | |
preterite | fundai | fundas | funda | fundames | fundastes | funderent | |
future | funderai | funderas | fundera | funderons | funderoiz, fundereiz, funderez | funderont | |
conditional | funderoie, fundereie | funderoies, fundereies | funderoit, fundereit | funderiiens, funderiens | funderiiez, funderiez | funderoient, fundereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | funt | funz | funt | fundons | fundez | fundent |
imperfect | fundasse | fundasses | fundast | fundissons, fundissiens | fundissoiz, fundissez, fundissiez | fundassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | funde | — | fundons | fundez | — |