cuire

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See also: cuiré

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French cuire, from Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

cuire

  1. (intransitive) to cook
    Le repas cuit. ― The meal is cooking.
    Je fais cuire le repas. ― I'm cooking the meal. / I cook the meal.
Usage notes

Cuire has the meaning of "making food undergo a chemical transformation process using heat or other means" whereas cuisiner means "to prepare/arrange food in order to make it proper for consumption and palatable".
Cuire is also a transitive verb but instead of the transitive verb meaning “to cook” one often uses faire cuire.

Conjugation
  • Cuire is often conjugated as cuirent in the third-person plural of the past historic.
Conjugation of cuire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple cuire
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple cuisant
/kɥi.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle cuit
/kɥi/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present cuis
/kɥi/ 		cuis
/kɥi/ 		cuit
/kɥi/ 		cuisons
/kɥi.zɔ̃/ 		cuisez
/kɥi.ze/ 		cuisent
/kɥiz/
imperfect cuisais
/kɥi.zɛ/ 		cuisais
/kɥi.zɛ/ 		cuisait
/kɥi.zɛ/ 		cuisions
/kɥi.zjɔ̃/ 		cuisiez
/kɥi.zje/ 		cuisaient
/kɥi.zɛ/
past historic2 cuisis
/kɥi.zi/ 		cuisis
/kɥi.zi/ 		cuisit
/kɥi.zi/ 		cuisîmes
/kɥi.zim/ 		cuisîtes
/kɥi.zit/ 		cuisirent
/kɥi.ziʁ/
future cuirai
/kɥi.ʁe/ 		cuiras
/kɥi.ʁa/ 		cuira
/kɥi.ʁa/ 		cuirons
/kɥi.ʁɔ̃/ 		cuirez
/kɥi.ʁe/ 		cuiront
/kɥi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional cuirais
/kɥi.ʁɛ/ 		cuirais
/kɥi.ʁɛ/ 		cuirait
/kɥi.ʁɛ/ 		cuirions
/kɥi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		cuiriez
/kɥi.ʁje/ 		cuiraient
/kɥi.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 cuise
/kɥiz/ 		cuises
/kɥiz/ 		cuise
/kɥiz/ 		cuisions
/kɥi.zjɔ̃/ 		cuisiez
/kɥi.zje/ 		cuisent
/kɥiz/
imperfect2 cuisisse
/kɥi.zis/ 		cuisisses
/kɥi.zis/ 		cuisît
/kɥi.zi/ 		cuisissions
/kɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/ 		cuisissiez
/kɥi.zi.sje/ 		cuisissent
/kɥi.zis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — cuis
/kɥi/ 		— cuisons
/kɥi.zɔ̃/ 		cuisez
/kɥi.ze/ 		—
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).

Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Esperanto: kuiri
See also
Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cuire

  1. inflection of cuirer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cuire (“troop, host, company; muster”).

Noun

cuire m (genitive singular cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

  1. band, troop
Declension
Declension of cuire

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuire cuirí
Vocative a chuire a chuirí
Genitive cuire cuirí
Dative cuire cuirí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cuire na cuirí
Genitive an chuire na gcuirí
Dative leis an gcuire

don chuire

leis na cuirí
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cuire

  1. present subjunctive analytic of cuir

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuire chuire gcuire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Middle French

Verb

cuire

  1. Alternative form of cuyre

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

cuire

  1. (Guernsey) to cook

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

cuire

  1. to cook

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of cuire (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive cuire avoir cuit
gerund en cuisant gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle cuisant
past participle cuit
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present cuis, cui cuis cuist, cuit cuisons, cuions cuisiez, cuiiez cuisent, cuient
imperfect cuisoie, cuiseie cuisoies, cuiseies cuisoit, cuiseit cuisiiens, cuisiens cuisiiez, cuisiez cuisoient, cuiseient
preterite cuis cuisis cuist cuisimes cuisistes cuistrent
future cuirai cuiras cuira cuirons cuiroiz, cuireiz, cuirez cuiront
conditional cuiroie, cuireie cuiroies, cuireies cuiroit, cuireit cuiriiens, cuiriens cuiriiez, cuiriez cuiroient, cuireient
compound
tenses 		present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present cuise, cuie cuises, cuies cuise, cuie cuisiens, cuisons, cuiiens, cuions cuisiez, cuiiez cuisent, cuient
imperfect cuisisse cuisisses cuisist cuisissons, cuisissiens cuisissoiz, cuisissez, cuisissiez cuisissent
compound
tenses 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— cuis, cui — cuisons, cuions cuisiez, cuiiez —

Descendants

References

  • “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 152

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

cuire

  1. second-person singular imperative of fo·ceird

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cuire chuire cuire
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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