fournir

From Old French furnir, fornir (whence also English furnish), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cf. Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), from fruma (“utility, gain”), akin to Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), fremian (“to promote, perform”). Compare Catalan fornir, Italian fornire, English furnish.

• IPA^(key): /fuʁ.niʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

fournir

1. to supply, to provide, to furnish

   La boulangerie fournit mon restaurant en pain.

   The bakery supplies my restaurant with bread.

   Les systèmes d’interprétation simultanée permettent de fournir à de nombreuses personnes un discours dans leur langue alors même que l’orateur le prononce dans une autre langue.

   Simultaneous interpretation systems allow a large number of people to be provided with a speech in their own language at the same time as the speaker is delivering it in another.

2. to put in

   fournir de l’effort ― to put in effort

3. (card games) to follow suit
4. (slang) to poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex

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-.

• fournisseur
• fourniture

• → German: furnieren

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