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cuver
cuver
French
Verb
cuver
- (intransitive) to ferment
- (transitive, colloquial) to sleep off (especially of alcohol)
- (intransitive, colloquial) to sleep or rest after drinking
- (transitive) to calm
- cuver sa colère ― simmer down
- (intransitive, Argad'z) to lie around, laze about
Conjugation
Conjugation of cuver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cuver | avoir cuvé | |||||
| gerund | en cuvant | en ayant cuvé | |||||
| present participle | cuvant /ky.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | cuvé /ky.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | cuve /kyv/ |
cuves /kyv/ |
cuve /kyv/ |
cuvons /ky.vɔ̃/ |
cuvez /ky.ve/ |
cuvent /kyv/ |
| imperfect | cuvais /ky.vɛ/ |
cuvais /ky.vɛ/ |
cuvait /ky.vɛ/ |
cuvions /ky.vjɔ̃/ |
cuviez /ky.vje/ |
cuvaient /ky.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cuvai /ky.ve/ |
cuvas /ky.va/ |
cuva /ky.va/ |
cuvâmes /ky.vam/ |
cuvâtes /ky.vat/ |
cuvèrent /ky.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | cuverai /ky.vʁe/ |
cuveras /ky.vʁa/ |
cuvera /ky.vʁa/ |
cuverons /ky.vʁɔ̃/ |
cuverez /ky.vʁe/ |
cuveront /ky.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cuverais /ky.vʁɛ/ |
cuverais /ky.vʁɛ/ |
cuverait /ky.vʁɛ/ |
cuverions /ky.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cuveriez /ky.və.ʁje/ |
cuveraient /ky.vʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | cuve /kyv/ |
cuves /kyv/ |
cuve /kyv/ |
cuvions /ky.vjɔ̃/ |
cuviez /ky.vje/ |
cuvent /kyv/ |
| imperfect1 |
cuvasse /ky.vas/ |
cuvasses /ky.vas/ |
cuvât /ky.va/ |
cuvassions /ky.va.sjɔ̃/ |
cuvassiez /ky.va.sje/ |
cuvassent /ky.vas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | cuve /kyv/ |
— | cuvons /ky.vɔ̃/ |
cuvez /ky.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||