recourber
French
Etymology
re- + courber
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.kuʁ.be/
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Verb
recourber
- (transitive) to bend (back), curl
Conjugation
Conjugation of recourber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | recourber | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | recourbant /ʁə.kuʁ.bɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | recourbé /ʁə.kuʁ.be/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/ | recourbes /ʁə.kuʁb/ | recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/ | recourbons /ʁə.kuʁ.bɔ̃/ | recourbez /ʁə.kuʁ.be/ | recourbent /ʁə.kuʁb/ |
imperfect | recourbais /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/ | recourbais /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/ | recourbait /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/ | recourbions /ʁə.kuʁ.bjɔ̃/ | recourbiez /ʁə.kuʁ.bje/ | recourbaient /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/ | |
past historic2 | recourbai /ʁə.kuʁ.be/ | recourbas /ʁə.kuʁ.ba/ | recourba /ʁə.kuʁ.ba/ | recourbâmes /ʁə.kuʁ.bam/ | recourbâtes /ʁə.kuʁ.bat/ | recourbèrent /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛʁ/ | |
future | recourberai /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁe/ | recourberas /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁa/ | recourbera /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁa/ | recourberons /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ | recourberez /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁe/ | recourberont /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | recourberais /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ | recourberais /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ | recourberait /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ | recourberions /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ | recourberiez /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁje/ | recourberaient /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ | |
(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 | recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/ | recourbes /ʁə.kuʁb/ | recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/ | recourbions /ʁə.kuʁ.bjɔ̃/ | recourbiez /ʁə.kuʁ.bje/ | recourbent /ʁə.kuʁb/ |
imperfect2 | recourbasse /ʁə.kuʁ.bas/ | recourbasses /ʁə.kuʁ.bas/ | recourbât /ʁə.kuʁ.ba/ | recourbassions /ʁə.kuʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/ | recourbassiez /ʁə.kuʁ.ba.sje/ | recourbassent /ʁə.kuʁ.bas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/ | — | recourbons /ʁə.kuʁ.bɔ̃/ | recourbez /ʁə.kuʁ.be/ | — | |
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
- “recourber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.