tourber

French

Etymology

From tourbe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

tourber

1. to dig up peat

Conjugation

Conjugation of tourber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tourber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tourbant /tuʁ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tourbé /tuʁ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tourbe /tuʁb/	tourbes /tuʁb/	tourbe /tuʁb/	tourbons /tuʁ.bɔ̃/	tourbez /tuʁ.be/	tourbent /tuʁb/
	imperfect	tourbais /tuʁ.bɛ/	tourbais /tuʁ.bɛ/	tourbait /tuʁ.bɛ/	tourbions /tuʁ.bjɔ̃/	tourbiez /tuʁ.bje/	tourbaient /tuʁ.bɛ/
	past historic2	tourbai /tuʁ.be/	tourbas /tuʁ.ba/	tourba /tuʁ.ba/	tourbâmes /tuʁ.bam/	tourbâtes /tuʁ.bat/	tourbèrent /tuʁ.bɛʁ/
	future	tourberai /tuʁ.bə.ʁe/	tourberas /tuʁ.bə.ʁa/	tourbera /tuʁ.bə.ʁa/	tourberons /tuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/	tourberez /tuʁ.bə.ʁe/	tourberont /tuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tourberais /tuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	tourberais /tuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	tourberait /tuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	tourberions /tuʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	tourberiez /tuʁ.bə.ʁje/	tourberaient /tuʁ.bə.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	tourbe /tuʁb/	tourbes /tuʁb/	tourbe /tuʁb/	tourbions /tuʁ.bjɔ̃/	tourbiez /tuʁ.bje/	tourbent /tuʁb/
	imperfect2	tourbasse /tuʁ.bas/	tourbasses /tuʁ.bas/	tourbât /tuʁ.ba/	tourbassions /tuʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/	tourbassiez /tuʁ.ba.sje/	tourbassent /tuʁ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tourbe /tuʁb/	—	tourbons /tuʁ.bɔ̃/	tourbez /tuʁ.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).

Further reading

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