culbuter
French
Etymology
From culer + buter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kyl.by.te/
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Verb
culbuter
- (intransitive) to take a tumble, fall over (of a person); to overturn (of vehicle)
- (transitive, vulgar) to bang (have sex with someone)
- 1921, Louis Pergaud, La Vengeance du père Jourgeot, in Les Rustiques, nouvelles villageoises
- Pourquoi aurait-il échappé à la règle ? Combien de jouvencelles avait-il culbutées jadis ; combien de maris avait-il mis dans la situation où il se trouvait à l’heure actuelle ?
- Why would the rule not apply to him? How many young girls had he banged before; how many husbands had he put in the very situation he was in now?
- 1921, Louis Pergaud, La Vengeance du père Jourgeot, in Les Rustiques, nouvelles villageoises
Conjugation
Conjugation of culbuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | culbuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | culbutant /kyl.by.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | culbuté /kyl.by.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutes /kyl.byt/ | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutons /kyl.by.tɔ̃/ | culbutez /kyl.by.te/ | culbutent /kyl.byt/ |
| imperfect | culbutais /kyl.by.tɛ/ | culbutais /kyl.by.tɛ/ | culbutait /kyl.by.tɛ/ | culbutions /kyl.by.tjɔ̃/ | culbutiez /kyl.by.tje/ | culbutaient /kyl.by.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | culbutai /kyl.by.te/ | culbutas /kyl.by.ta/ | culbuta /kyl.by.ta/ | culbutâmes /kyl.by.tam/ | culbutâtes /kyl.by.tat/ | culbutèrent /kyl.by.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | culbuterai /kyl.by.tʁe/ | culbuteras /kyl.by.tʁa/ | culbutera /kyl.by.tʁa/ | culbuterons /kyl.by.tʁɔ̃/ | culbuterez /kyl.by.tʁe/ | culbuteront /kyl.by.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | culbuterais /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | culbuterais /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | culbuterait /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | culbuterions /kyl.by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | culbuteriez /kyl.by.tə.ʁje/ | culbuteraient /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutes /kyl.byt/ | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutions /kyl.by.tjɔ̃/ | culbutiez /kyl.by.tje/ | culbutent /kyl.byt/ |
| imperfect2 | culbutasse /kyl.by.tas/ | culbutasses /kyl.by.tas/ | culbutât /kyl.by.ta/ | culbutassions /kyl.by.ta.sjɔ̃/ | culbutassiez /kyl.by.ta.sje/ | culbutassent /kyl.by.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | culbute /kyl.byt/ | — | culbutons /kyl.by.tɔ̃/ | culbutez /kyl.by.te/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “culbuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.