cureter
French
Verb
cureter
- to curette
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il curète rather than *il curete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of cureter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | cureter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | curetant /kyʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | cureté /kyʁ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ | curètes /ky.ʁɛt/ | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ | curetons /kyʁ.tɔ̃/ | curetez /kyʁ.te/ | curètent /ky.ʁɛt/ |
imperfect | curetais /kyʁ.tɛ/ | curetais /kyʁ.tɛ/ | curetait /kyʁ.tɛ/ | curetions /ky.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ | curetiez /ky.ʁə.tje/ | curetaient /kyʁ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | curetai /kyʁ.te/ | curetas /kyʁ.ta/ | cureta /kyʁ.ta/ | curetâmes /kyʁ.tam/ | curetâtes /kyʁ.tat/ | curetèrent /kyʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | curèterai /ky.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁe/ | curèteras /ky.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁa/ | curètera /ky.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁa/ | curèterons /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | curèterez /ky.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁe/ | curèteront /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | curèterais /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | curèterais /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | curèterait /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | curèterions /ky.ʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ky.ʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | curèteriez /ky.ʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ky.ʁe.tə.ʁje/ | curèteraient /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.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 | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ | curètes /ky.ʁɛt/ | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ | curetions /ky.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ | curetiez /ky.ʁə.tje/ | curètent /ky.ʁɛt/ |
imperfect2 | curetasse /kyʁ.tas/ | curetasses /kyʁ.tas/ | curetât /kyʁ.ta/ | curetassions /kyʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | curetassiez /kyʁ.ta.sje/ | curetassent /kyʁ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ | — | curetons /kyʁ.tɔ̃/ | curetez /kyʁ.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
- “cureter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.