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abreuver
abreuver
French
Verb
abreuver
- (literary) to water (cattle, fields etc.), give water to (a person)
- (literary, takes a reflexive pronoun, s'abreuver) to drink
- (literary, ditransitive, with de) to shower (someone) in
- Elle l'a abreuvé d'injures. ― She insulted him copiously.
Conjugation
Conjugation of abreuver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abreuver | avoir abreuvé | |||||
| gerund | en abreuvant | en ayant abreuvé | |||||
| present participle | abreuvant /a.bʁœ.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abreuvé /a.bʁœ.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abreuve /a.bʁœv/ |
abreuves /a.bʁœv/ |
abreuve /a.bʁœv/ |
abreuvons /a.bʁœ.vɔ̃/ |
abreuvez /a.bʁœ.ve/ |
abreuvent /a.bʁœv/ |
| imperfect | abreuvais /a.bʁœ.vɛ/ |
abreuvais /a.bʁœ.vɛ/ |
abreuvait /a.bʁœ.vɛ/ |
abreuvions /a.bʁœ.vjɔ̃/ |
abreuviez /a.bʁœ.vje/ |
abreuvaient /a.bʁœ.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abreuvai /a.bʁœ.ve/ |
abreuvas /a.bʁœ.va/ |
abreuva /a.bʁœ.va/ |
abreuvâmes /a.bʁœ.vam/ |
abreuvâtes /a.bʁœ.vat/ |
abreuvèrent /a.bʁœ.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | abreuverai /a.bʁœ.vʁe/ |
abreuveras /a.bʁœ.vʁa/ |
abreuvera /a.bʁœ.vʁa/ |
abreuverons /a.bʁœ.vʁɔ̃/ |
abreuverez /a.bʁœ.vʁe/ |
abreuveront /a.bʁœ.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abreuverais /a.bʁœ.vʁɛ/ |
abreuverais /a.bʁœ.vʁɛ/ |
abreuverait /a.bʁœ.vʁɛ/ |
abreuverions /a.bʁœ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abreuveriez /a.bʁœ.və.ʁje/ |
abreuveraient /a.bʁœ.vʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abreuve /a.bʁœv/ |
abreuves /a.bʁœv/ |
abreuve /a.bʁœv/ |
abreuvions /a.bʁœ.vjɔ̃/ |
abreuviez /a.bʁœ.vje/ |
abreuvent /a.bʁœv/ |
| imperfect1 |
abreuvasse /a.bʁœ.vas/ |
abreuvasses /a.bʁœ.vas/ |
abreuvât /a.bʁœ.va/ |
abreuvassions /a.bʁœ.va.sjɔ̃/ |
abreuvassiez /a.bʁœ.va.sje/ |
abreuvassent /a.bʁœ.vas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | abreuve /a.bʁœv/ |
— | abreuvons /a.bʁœ.vɔ̃/ |
abreuvez /a.bʁœ.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||