courbaturer

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

courbaturer

1. to cause to ache

Conjugation

Conjugation of courbaturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	courbaturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	courbaturant /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		courbaturé /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	courbature /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	courbatures /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	courbature /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	courbaturons /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɔ̃/	courbaturez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁe/	courbaturent /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/
	imperfect	courbaturais /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɛ/	courbaturais /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɛ/	courbaturait /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɛ/	courbaturions /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	courbaturiez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁje/	courbaturaient /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	courbaturai /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁe/	courbaturas /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁa/	courbatura /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁa/	courbaturâmes /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁam/	courbaturâtes /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁat/	courbaturèrent /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	courbaturerai /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	courbatureras /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	courbaturera /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	courbaturerons /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	courbaturerez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	courbatureront /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	courbaturerais /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	courbaturerais /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	courbaturerait /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	courbaturerions /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	courbatureriez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	courbatureraient /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁə.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	courbature /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	courbatures /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	courbature /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	courbaturions /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	courbaturiez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁje/	courbaturent /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	courbaturasse /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁas/	courbaturasses /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁas/	courbaturât /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁa/	courbaturassions /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	courbaturassiez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁa.sje/	courbaturassent /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	courbature /kuʁ.ba.tyʁ/	—	courbaturons /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁɔ̃/	courbaturez /kuʁ.ba.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• courbature
• courbaturé

Further reading

• “courbaturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.