couver

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cubāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ku.ve/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophones: couvé, couvés, couvée, couvées, couvez, couvai
  • Rhymes: -e

Verb

couver

  1. to brood (an egg)
  2. (figuratively) to coddle, pamper, mollycoddle
  3. (figuratively) to plot, hatch, scheme

Conjugation

Conjugation of couver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple couver
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple couvant
/ku.vɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle couvé
/ku.ve/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present couve
/kuv/ 		couves
/kuv/ 		couve
/kuv/ 		couvons
/ku.vɔ̃/ 		couvez
/ku.ve/ 		couvent
/kuv/
imperfect couvais
/ku.vɛ/ 		couvais
/ku.vɛ/ 		couvait
/ku.vɛ/ 		couvions
/ku.vjɔ̃/ 		couviez
/ku.vje/ 		couvaient
/ku.vɛ/
past historic2 couvai
/ku.ve/ 		couvas
/ku.va/ 		couva
/ku.va/ 		couvâmes
/ku.vam/ 		couvâtes
/ku.vat/ 		couvèrent
/ku.vɛʁ/
future couverai
/ku.vʁe/ 		couveras
/ku.vʁa/ 		couvera
/ku.vʁa/ 		couverons
/ku.vʁɔ̃/ 		couverez
/ku.vʁe/ 		couveront
/ku.vʁɔ̃/
conditional couverais
/ku.vʁɛ/ 		couverais
/ku.vʁɛ/ 		couverait
/ku.vʁɛ/ 		couverions
/ku.və.ʁjɔ̃/ 		couveriez
/ku.və.ʁje/ 		couveraient
/ku.vʁɛ/
(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 couve
/kuv/ 		couves
/kuv/ 		couve
/kuv/ 		couvions
/ku.vjɔ̃/ 		couviez
/ku.vje/ 		couvent
/kuv/
imperfect2 couvasse
/ku.vas/ 		couvasses
/ku.vas/ 		couvât
/ku.va/ 		couvassions
/ku.va.sjɔ̃/ 		couvassiez
/ku.va.sje/ 		couvassent
/ku.vas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — couve
/kuv/ 		— couvons
/ku.vɔ̃/ 		couvez
/ku.ve/ 		—
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:
past historic → present perfect
past anterior → pluperfect
imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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