cintrer

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cinctūrāre, from cinctūra (whence French ceinture). Compare the French coinage ceinturer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.tʁe/

Verb

cintrer

1. (transitive) to bend
2. (transitive) to vault
3. (transitive) to take in [at the waist]

Conjugation

Conjugation of cintrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cintrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cintrant /sɛ̃.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cintré /sɛ̃.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	cintres /sɛ̃tʁ/	cintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	cintrons /sɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	cintrez /sɛ̃.tʁe/	cintrent /sɛ̃tʁ/
	imperfect	cintrais /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	cintrais /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	cintrait /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	cintrions /sɛ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	cintriez /sɛ̃.tʁi.je/	cintraient /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	cintrai /sɛ̃.tʁe/	cintras /sɛ̃.tʁa/	cintra /sɛ̃.tʁa/	cintrâmes /sɛ̃.tʁam/	cintrâtes /sɛ̃.tʁat/	cintrèrent /sɛ̃.tʁɛʁ/
	future	cintrerai /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	cintreras /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	cintrera /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	cintrerons /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cintrerez /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	cintreront /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cintrerais /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	cintrerais /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	cintrerait /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	cintrerions /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cintreriez /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁje/	cintreraient /sɛ̃.tʁə.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	cintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	cintres /sɛ̃tʁ/	cintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	cintrions /sɛ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	cintriez /sɛ̃.tʁi.je/	cintrent /sɛ̃tʁ/
	imperfect2	cintrasse /sɛ̃.tʁas/	cintrasses /sɛ̃.tʁas/	cintrât /sɛ̃.tʁa/	cintrassions /sɛ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	cintrassiez /sɛ̃.tʁa.sje/	cintrassent /sɛ̃.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	—	cintrons /sɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	cintrez /sɛ̃.tʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• cintre
• cintré

Further reading

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