Talk:coudre

Tea room discussion

Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.

Coudre doesn't have the conjugation there. Is there anywhere I could request it or anyone I could request it from? I don't actually know it well enough myself. -Oreo Priest ^talk 14:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

On the bar on the left side, below the search box, you will find the link French Wiktionary which might have what you need. DCDuring TALK 15:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Or not. You would have to page through the "what links here" equivalent in French wiktionary to find the forms that are entered there. DCDuring TALK 20:46, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't have time to add the conjugation table right now — I'll try to remember to later, if no one beats me to it — but the rule is pretty simple: it's conjugated just like (deprecated template usage) vendre, (deprecated template usage) perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular <-re> verbs), except that its stem alternates between <coud-> (/kud/, /ku/, /ku(t)/) and <cous-> (/kuz/). <cous-> is written before endings that start with written vowels ("nous cousons", "qu'il couse", "on l'a cousu", etc.), while <coud-> is written before endings that start with written consonants ("je couds", "nous coudrons", "coudre", etc.), as well as in the (endingless/<-Ø>-ending) third-person singular present indicative ("il coud"). Given this, the forms are pronounced as you'd expect. —Ruakh_TALK 16:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't think we have a template for this one. Come to think of it, I can't actually think of any other verbs which conjugate exactly like coudre. Except for recoudre. There must be some... Widsith 20:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Does (deprecated template usage) découdre count? :-)   —Ruakh_TALK 21:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

So if this comes up again, who should I go to? -Oreo Priest ^talk 06:39, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Bring it here. We'll sort it out eventually, and quicker if someone like you mentions it! Widsith 07:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)