recourber

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ courber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kuʁ.be/

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Verb

recourber

1. (transitive) to bend (back), curl

Conjugation

Conjugation of recourber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recourber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recourbant /ʁə.kuʁ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recourbé /ʁə.kuʁ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/	recourbes /ʁə.kuʁb/	recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/	recourbons /ʁə.kuʁ.bɔ̃/	recourbez /ʁə.kuʁ.be/	recourbent /ʁə.kuʁb/
	imperfect	recourbais /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/	recourbais /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/	recourbait /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/	recourbions /ʁə.kuʁ.bjɔ̃/	recourbiez /ʁə.kuʁ.bje/	recourbaient /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛ/
	past historic2	recourbai /ʁə.kuʁ.be/	recourbas /ʁə.kuʁ.ba/	recourba /ʁə.kuʁ.ba/	recourbâmes /ʁə.kuʁ.bam/	recourbâtes /ʁə.kuʁ.bat/	recourbèrent /ʁə.kuʁ.bɛʁ/
	future	recourberai /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁe/	recourberas /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁa/	recourbera /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁa/	recourberons /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/	recourberez /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁe/	recourberont /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recourberais /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	recourberais /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	recourberait /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	recourberions /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	recourberiez /ʁə.kuʁ.bə.ʁje/	recourberaient /ʁə.kuʁ.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	recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/	recourbes /ʁə.kuʁb/	recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/	recourbions /ʁə.kuʁ.bjɔ̃/	recourbiez /ʁə.kuʁ.bje/	recourbent /ʁə.kuʁb/
	imperfect2	recourbasse /ʁə.kuʁ.bas/	recourbasses /ʁə.kuʁ.bas/	recourbât /ʁə.kuʁ.ba/	recourbassions /ʁə.kuʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/	recourbassiez /ʁə.kuʁ.ba.sje/	recourbassent /ʁə.kuʁ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recourbe /ʁə.kuʁb/	—	recourbons /ʁə.kuʁ.bɔ̃/	recourbez /ʁə.kuʁ.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

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