tituber
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tituber
- (intransitive) to stagger
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 167:
- Plus tard, il ne s’est rien passé. Octave a ramené Odile dans sa chambre ; elle titubait.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of tituber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tituber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | titubant /ti.ty.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | titubé /ti.ty.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | titube /ti.tyb/ |
titubes /ti.tyb/ |
titube /ti.tyb/ |
titubons /ti.ty.bɔ̃/ |
titubez /ti.ty.be/ |
titubent /ti.tyb/ |
| imperfect | titubais /ti.ty.bɛ/ |
titubais /ti.ty.bɛ/ |
titubait /ti.ty.bɛ/ |
titubions /ti.ty.bjɔ̃/ |
titubiez /ti.ty.bje/ |
titubaient /ti.ty.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | titubai /ti.ty.be/ |
titubas /ti.ty.ba/ |
tituba /ti.ty.ba/ |
titubâmes /ti.ty.bam/ |
titubâtes /ti.ty.bat/ |
titubèrent /ti.ty.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | tituberai /ti.ty.bʁe/ |
tituberas /ti.ty.bʁa/ |
titubera /ti.ty.bʁa/ |
tituberons /ti.ty.bʁɔ̃/ |
tituberez /ti.ty.bʁe/ |
tituberont /ti.ty.bʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tituberais /ti.ty.bʁɛ/ |
tituberais /ti.ty.bʁɛ/ |
tituberait /ti.ty.bʁɛ/ |
tituberions /ti.ty.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tituberiez /ti.ty.bə.ʁje/ |
tituberaient /ti.ty.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 | titube /ti.tyb/ |
titubes /ti.tyb/ |
titube /ti.tyb/ |
titubions /ti.ty.bjɔ̃/ |
titubiez /ti.ty.bje/ |
titubent /ti.tyb/ |
| imperfect2 | titubasse /ti.ty.bas/ |
titubasses /ti.ty.bas/ |
titubât /ti.ty.ba/ |
titubassions /ti.ty.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
titubassiez /ti.ty.ba.sje/ |
titubassent /ti.ty.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | titube /ti.tyb/ |
— | titubons /ti.ty.bɔ̃/ |
titubez /ti.ty.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “tituber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈti.tu.ber/, [ˈt̪ɪt̪ʊbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈti.tu.ber/, [ˈt̪iːt̪uber]
Verb edit
tituber