duveter

French

Etymology

From duvet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dyv.te/
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Verb

duveter

(reflexive, se duveter, of a bird) to become downy; covered with down

Conjugation

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 duvète and the third-person singular future indicative il duvètera.

Conjugation of duveter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	duveter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	duvetant /dyv.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		duveté /dyv.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	duvète /dy.vɛt/	duvètes /dy.vɛt/	duvète /dy.vɛt/	duvetons /dyv.tɔ̃/	duvetez /dyv.te/	duvètent /dy.vɛt/
	imperfect	duvetais /dyv.tɛ/	duvetais /dyv.tɛ/	duvetait /dyv.tɛ/	duvetions /dy.və.tjɔ̃/	duvetiez /dy.və.tje/	duvetaient /dyv.tɛ/
	past historic²	duvetai /dyv.te/	duvetas /dyv.ta/	duveta /dyv.ta/	duvetâmes /dyv.tam/	duvetâtes /dyv.tat/	duvetèrent /dyv.tɛʁ/
	future	duvèterai /dy.vɛ.tʁe/ or /dy.ve.tʁe/	duvèteras /dy.vɛ.tʁa/ or /dy.ve.tʁa/	duvètera /dy.vɛ.tʁa/ or /dy.ve.tʁa/	duvèterons /dy.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /dy.ve.tʁɔ̃/	duvèterez /dy.vɛ.tʁe/ or /dy.ve.tʁe/	duvèteront /dy.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /dy.ve.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	duvèterais /dy.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dy.ve.tʁɛ/	duvèterais /dy.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dy.ve.tʁɛ/	duvèterait /dy.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dy.ve.tʁɛ/	duvèterions /dy.vɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dy.ve.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	duvèteriez /dy.vɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /dy.ve.tə.ʁje/	duvèteraient /dy.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dy.ve.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	duvète /dy.vɛt/	duvètes /dy.vɛt/	duvète /dy.vɛt/	duvetions /dy.və.tjɔ̃/	duvetiez /dy.və.tje/	duvètent /dy.vɛt/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	duvetasse /dyv.tas/	duvetasses /dyv.tas/	duvetât /dyv.ta/	duvetassions /dyv.ta.sjɔ̃/	duvetassiez /dyv.ta.sje/	duvetassent /dyv.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	duvète /dy.vɛt/	—	duvetons /dyv.tɔ̃/	duvetez /dyv.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: 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).