résoudre

See also: r'sourdre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin resolvere, present active infinitive of resolvō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁe.zudʁ/
  • (file)

Verb

résoudre

  1. (transitive) To resolve (to find a solution to).
  2. (reflexive, followed by à) To resolve, to make up one's mind
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, chap. VII, p. 67
      Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs. Et voici que je m'apprête à raconter mes expéditions. Mais que de temps pour m'y résoudre!
      — I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the stories of my expeditions. But how long it has taken me to make up my mind to do so! — 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, →ISBN, chap. VII

Conjugation

This verb also has a rare past participle résous (feminine résoute).

This verb also has a rare past participle résous (feminine résoute).

Further reading

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