lourder
French, verb/luʁ.de/
lourder is spelled L-O-U-R-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lourder is a French verb meaning “to fire someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre à la porte”.
What does lourder mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangto fire someone
- 2
slangto be fired
il a été lourdé la semaine dernière.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre à la porte. 2. Licencier. 3. Balancer, abandonner. 4. Être pénible à supporter.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lourder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lourdant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lourdé participle past
- lourde first-person indicative present
- lourdes indicative present second-person
- lourdons first-person indicative plural
- lourdez indicative plural present
- lourdent indicative plural present
- lourdais first-person imperfect indicative
- lourdait imperfect indicative singular
- lourdions first-person imperfect indicative
- lourdiez imperfect indicative plural
- lourdaient imperfect indicative plural
- lourdai first-person historic indicative
- lourdas historic indicative past
- lourda historic indicative past
- lourdâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lourder?
- /luʁ.de/
- \luʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lourder in French?
lourder appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).