cureter
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Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
cureter
- to curette
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il curète and the third-person singular future indicative il curètera.
Conjugation of cureter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cureter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | curetant /kyʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cureté /kyʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ |
curètes /ky.ʁɛt/ |
curète /ky.ʁɛt/ |
curetons /kyʁ.tɔ̃/ |
curetez /kyʁ.te/ |
curètent /ky.ʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | curetais /kyʁ.tɛ/ |
curetais /kyʁ.tɛ/ |
curetait /kyʁ.tɛ/ |
curetions /ky.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ |
curetiez /ky.ʁə.tje/ |
curetaient /kyʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | curetai /kyʁ.te/ |
curetas /kyʁ.ta/ |
cureta /kyʁ.ta/ |
curetâmes /kyʁ.tam/ |
curetâtes /kyʁ.tat/ |
curetèrent /kyʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | curèterai /ky.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁe/ |
curèteras /ky.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁa/ |
curètera /ky.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁa/ |
curèterons /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ |
curèterez /ky.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁe/ |
curèteront /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | curèterais /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
curèterais /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
curèterait /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
curèterions /ky.ʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ky.ʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
curèteriez /ky.ʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ky.ʁe.tə.ʁje/ |
curèteraient /ky.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ky.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ |
curètes /ky.ʁɛt/ |
curète /ky.ʁɛt/ |
curetions /ky.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ |
curetiez /ky.ʁə.tje/ |
curètent /ky.ʁɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | curetasse /kyʁ.tas/ |
curetasses /kyʁ.tas/ |
curetât /kyʁ.ta/ |
curetassions /kyʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
curetassiez /kyʁ.ta.sje/ |
curetassent /kyʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | curète /ky.ʁɛt/ |
— | curetons /kyʁ.tɔ̃/ |
curetez /kyʁ.te/ |
— | |
| 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
- “cureter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.