incuber

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

incuber

1. to incubate

Conjugation

Conjugation of incuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	incuber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	incubant /ɛ̃.ky.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		incubé /ɛ̃.ky.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	incube /ɛ̃.kyb/	incubes /ɛ̃.kyb/	incube /ɛ̃.kyb/	incubons /ɛ̃.ky.bɔ̃/	incubez /ɛ̃.ky.be/	incubent /ɛ̃.kyb/
	imperfect	incubais /ɛ̃.ky.bɛ/	incubais /ɛ̃.ky.bɛ/	incubait /ɛ̃.ky.bɛ/	incubions /ɛ̃.ky.bjɔ̃/	incubiez /ɛ̃.ky.bje/	incubaient /ɛ̃.ky.bɛ/
	past historic2	incubai /ɛ̃.ky.be/	incubas /ɛ̃.ky.ba/	incuba /ɛ̃.ky.ba/	incubâmes /ɛ̃.ky.bam/	incubâtes /ɛ̃.ky.bat/	incubèrent /ɛ̃.ky.bɛʁ/
	future	incuberai /ɛ̃.ky.bʁe/	incuberas /ɛ̃.ky.bʁa/	incubera /ɛ̃.ky.bʁa/	incuberons /ɛ̃.ky.bʁɔ̃/	incuberez /ɛ̃.ky.bʁe/	incuberont /ɛ̃.ky.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	incuberais /ɛ̃.ky.bʁɛ/	incuberais /ɛ̃.ky.bʁɛ/	incuberait /ɛ̃.ky.bʁɛ/	incuberions /ɛ̃.ky.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	incuberiez /ɛ̃.ky.bə.ʁje/	incuberaient /ɛ̃.ky.bʁɛ/
(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	incube /ɛ̃.kyb/	incubes /ɛ̃.kyb/	incube /ɛ̃.kyb/	incubions /ɛ̃.ky.bjɔ̃/	incubiez /ɛ̃.ky.bje/	incubent /ɛ̃.kyb/
	imperfect2	incubasse /ɛ̃.ky.bas/	incubasses /ɛ̃.ky.bas/	incubât /ɛ̃.ky.ba/	incubassions /ɛ̃.ky.ba.sjɔ̃/	incubassiez /ɛ̃.ky.ba.sje/	incubassent /ɛ̃.ky.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	incube /ɛ̃.kyb/	—	incubons /ɛ̃.ky.bɔ̃/	incubez /ɛ̃.ky.be/	—
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

• incubateur
• incubation

Further reading

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