obturer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obtūrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp.ty.ʁe/

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Verb

obturer

1. to seal, close up
2. (figurative) to hide

   Synonyms: cacher, dissimuler

   • 1997, “L'Empire du côté obscur”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     Ta nature que tu obtures, le côté obscur de la force

     Your nature that you hide, the dark side of the force

Conjugation

Conjugation of obturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	obturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	obturant /ɔp.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		obturé /ɔp.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	obture /ɔp.tyʁ/	obtures /ɔp.tyʁ/	obture /ɔp.tyʁ/	obturons /ɔp.ty.ʁɔ̃/	obturez /ɔp.ty.ʁe/	obturent /ɔp.tyʁ/
	imperfect	obturais /ɔp.ty.ʁɛ/	obturais /ɔp.ty.ʁɛ/	obturait /ɔp.ty.ʁɛ/	obturions /ɔp.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	obturiez /ɔp.ty.ʁje/	obturaient /ɔp.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	obturai /ɔp.ty.ʁe/	obturas /ɔp.ty.ʁa/	obtura /ɔp.ty.ʁa/	obturâmes /ɔp.ty.ʁam/	obturâtes /ɔp.ty.ʁat/	obturèrent /ɔp.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	obturerai /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	obtureras /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	obturera /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	obturerons /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	obturerez /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	obtureront /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	obturerais /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	obturerais /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	obturerait /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	obturerions /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	obtureriez /ɔp.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	obtureraient /ɔp.ty.ʁə.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	obture /ɔp.tyʁ/	obtures /ɔp.tyʁ/	obture /ɔp.tyʁ/	obturions /ɔp.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	obturiez /ɔp.ty.ʁje/	obturent /ɔp.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	obturasse /ɔp.ty.ʁas/	obturasses /ɔp.ty.ʁas/	obturât /ɔp.ty.ʁa/	obturassions /ɔp.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	obturassiez /ɔp.ty.ʁa.sje/	obturassent /ɔp.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	obture /ɔp.tyʁ/	—	obturons /ɔp.ty.ʁɔ̃/	obturez /ɔp.ty.ʁe/	—
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• obturation (noun)

Further reading

• “obturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brouter

Latin

Verb

obtūrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of obtūrō