cuivrer

French

Etymology

From cuivre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.vʁe/

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Verb

cuivrer

1. (transitive) to coat with copper

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuivrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cuivrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cuivrant /kɥi.vʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cuivré /kɥi.vʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cuivre /kɥivʁ/	cuivres /kɥivʁ/	cuivre /kɥivʁ/	cuivrons /kɥi.vʁɔ̃/	cuivrez /kɥi.vʁe/	cuivrent /kɥivʁ/
	imperfect	cuivrais /kɥi.vʁɛ/	cuivrais /kɥi.vʁɛ/	cuivrait /kɥi.vʁɛ/	cuivrions /kɥi.vʁi.jɔ̃/	cuivriez /kɥi.vʁi.je/	cuivraient /kɥi.vʁɛ/
	past historic2	cuivrai /kɥi.vʁe/	cuivras /kɥi.vʁa/	cuivra /kɥi.vʁa/	cuivrâmes /kɥi.vʁam/	cuivrâtes /kɥi.vʁat/	cuivrèrent /kɥi.vʁɛʁ/
	future	cuivrerai /kɥi.vʁə.ʁe/	cuivreras /kɥi.vʁə.ʁa/	cuivrera /kɥi.vʁə.ʁa/	cuivrerons /kɥi.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cuivrerez /kɥi.vʁə.ʁe/	cuivreront /kɥi.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cuivrerais /kɥi.vʁə.ʁɛ/	cuivrerais /kɥi.vʁə.ʁɛ/	cuivrerait /kɥi.vʁə.ʁɛ/	cuivrerions /kɥi.vʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cuivreriez /kɥi.vʁə.ʁje/	cuivreraient /kɥi.vʁə.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	cuivre /kɥivʁ/	cuivres /kɥivʁ/	cuivre /kɥivʁ/	cuivrions /kɥi.vʁi.jɔ̃/	cuivriez /kɥi.vʁi.je/	cuivrent /kɥivʁ/
	imperfect2	cuivrasse /kɥi.vʁas/	cuivrasses /kɥi.vʁas/	cuivrât /kɥi.vʁa/	cuivrassions /kɥi.vʁa.sjɔ̃/	cuivrassiez /kɥi.vʁa.sje/	cuivrassent /kɥi.vʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cuivre /kɥivʁ/	—	cuivrons /kɥi.vʁɔ̃/	cuivrez /kɥi.vʁe/	—
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

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