cabrer

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French

Etymology

Perhaps from cabre. Compare Spanish cabrear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.bʁe/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

cabrer

  1. (reflexive, of a horse) to rear up
  2. (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

Conjugation 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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