cabrer
French
editEtymology
editPerhaps from cabre. Compare Spanish cabrear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcabrer
- (reflexive, of a horse) to rear up
- (reflexive, figurative) to complain
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Alison Anderson, transl., Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:
- Le journaliste nota sur le carnet : « T. accueille les compliments sans se cabrer. »
- The journalist wrote in his notebook: “T. does not respond to compliments.”
Conjugation
editConjugation of cabrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cabrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cabrant /ka.bʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cabré /ka.bʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabres /kabʁ/ |
cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabrons /ka.bʁɔ̃/ |
cabrez /ka.bʁe/ |
cabrent /kabʁ/ |
| imperfect | cabrais /ka.bʁɛ/ |
cabrais /ka.bʁɛ/ |
cabrait /ka.bʁɛ/ |
cabrions /ka.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
cabriez /ka.bʁi.je/ |
cabraient /ka.bʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cabrai /ka.bʁe/ |
cabras /ka.bʁa/ |
cabra /ka.bʁa/ |
cabrâmes /ka.bʁam/ |
cabrâtes /ka.bʁat/ |
cabrèrent /ka.bʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | cabrerai /ka.bʁə.ʁe/ |
cabreras /ka.bʁə.ʁa/ |
cabrera /ka.bʁə.ʁa/ |
cabrerons /ka.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
cabrerez /ka.bʁə.ʁe/ |
cabreront /ka.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cabrerais /ka.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cabrerais /ka.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cabrerait /ka.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cabrerions /ka.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cabreriez /ka.bʁə.ʁje/ |
cabreraient /ka.bʁə.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 | cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabres /kabʁ/ |
cabre /kabʁ/ |
cabrions /ka.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
cabriez /ka.bʁi.je/ |
cabrent /kabʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | cabrasse /ka.bʁas/ |
cabrasses /ka.bʁas/ |
cabrât /ka.bʁa/ |
cabrassions /ka.bʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
cabrassiez /ka.bʁa.sje/ |
cabrassent /ka.bʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cabre /kabʁ/ |
— | cabrons /ka.bʁɔ̃/ |
cabrez /ka.bʁe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
edit- “cabrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.