cabrer
French edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from cabre. Compare Spanish cabrear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cabrer
- (transitive, of a horse) to rear up
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, figurative) to complain
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Alison Anderson, transl., Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:
- Le journaliste nota sur le carnet : « T. accueille les compliments sans se cabrer. »
- The journalist wrote in his notebook: “T. does not respond to compliments.”
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of cabrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | cabrer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | cabrant /ka.bʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | cabré /ka.bʁe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabres /kabʁ/ |
cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabrons /ka.bʁɔ̃/ |
cabrez /ka.bʁe/ |
cabrent /kabʁ/ |
imperfect | cabrais /ka.bʁɛ/ |
cabrais /ka.bʁɛ/ |
cabrait /ka.bʁɛ/ |
cabrions /ka.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
cabriez /ka.bʁi.je/ |
cabraient /ka.bʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | cabrai /ka.bʁe/ |
cabras /ka.bʁa/ |
cabra /ka.bʁa/ |
cabrâmes /ka.bʁam/ |
cabrâtes /ka.bʁat/ |
cabrèrent /ka.bʁɛʁ/ | |
future | cabrerai /ka.bʁə.ʁe/ |
cabreras /ka.bʁə.ʁa/ |
cabrera /ka.bʁə.ʁa/ |
cabrerons /ka.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
cabrerez /ka.bʁə.ʁe/ |
cabreront /ka.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | cabrerais /ka.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cabrerais /ka.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cabrerait /ka.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cabrerions /ka.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cabreriez /ka.bʁə.ʁje/ |
cabreraient /ka.bʁə.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 | cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabres /kabʁ/ |
cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabrions /ka.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
cabriez /ka.bʁi.je/ |
cabrent /kabʁ/ |
imperfect2 | cabrasse /ka.bʁas/ |
cabrasses /ka.bʁas/ |
cabrât /ka.bʁa/ |
cabrassions /ka.bʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
cabrassiez /ka.bʁa.sje/ |
cabrassent /ka.bʁas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | cabre /kabʁ/ |
— | cabrons /ka.bʁɔ̃/ |
cabrez /ka.bʁe/ |
— | |
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 edit
- “cabrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.