courber
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuʁ.be/
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Verb
courber
- (transitive) to bend (cause to become bent)
- (transitive) to bend (e.g. a rule)
- (intransitive) to bend (become bent)
- (reflexive) to bend
- (reflexive) to bow, to bow down, to bend down, to bend over
- (reflexive) to bend over backwards (be at another's will)
Conjugation
Conjugation of courber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | courber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | courbant /kuʁ.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | courbé /kuʁ.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | courbe /kuʁb/ |
courbes /kuʁb/ |
courbe /kuʁb/ |
courbons /kuʁ.bɔ̃/ |
courbez /kuʁ.be/ |
courbent /kuʁb/ |
| imperfect | courbais /kuʁ.bɛ/ |
courbais /kuʁ.bɛ/ |
courbait /kuʁ.bɛ/ |
courbions /kuʁ.bjɔ̃/ |
courbiez /kuʁ.bje/ |
courbaient /kuʁ.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | courbai /kuʁ.be/ |
courbas /kuʁ.ba/ |
courba /kuʁ.ba/ |
courbâmes /kuʁ.bam/ |
courbâtes /kuʁ.bat/ |
courbèrent /kuʁ.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | courberai /kuʁ.bə.ʁe/ |
courberas /kuʁ.bə.ʁa/ |
courbera /kuʁ.bə.ʁa/ |
courberons /kuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ |
courberez /kuʁ.bə.ʁe/ |
courberont /kuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | courberais /kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ |
courberais /kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ |
courberait /kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ |
courberions /kuʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
courberiez /kuʁ.bə.ʁje/ |
courberaient /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 | courbe /kuʁb/ |
courbes /kuʁb/ |
courbe /kuʁb/ |
courbions /kuʁ.bjɔ̃/ |
courbiez /kuʁ.bje/ |
courbent /kuʁb/ |
| imperfect2 | courbasse /kuʁ.bas/ |
courbasses /kuʁ.bas/ |
courbât /kuʁ.ba/ |
courbassions /kuʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
courbassiez /kuʁ.ba.sje/ |
courbassent /kuʁ.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | courbe /kuʁb/ |
— | courbons /kuʁ.bɔ̃/ |
courbez /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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “courber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.