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cuver
cuver
French
Verb
cuver
- (intransitive) to ferment
 - (transitive, colloquial) to sleep off (especially of alcohol)
 - (intransitive, colloquial) to sleep or rest after drinking
 -  (transitive) to calm
- cuver sa colère ― simmer down
 
 - (intransitive, Argad'z) to lie around, laze about
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of cuver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cuver | avoir cuvé | |||||
| gerund | en cuvant | en ayant cuvé | |||||
| present participle |  cuvant /ky.vɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  cuvé /ky.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 |  cuve /kyv/  | 
 cuves /kyv/  | 
 cuve /kyv/  | 
 cuvons /ky.vɔ̃/  | 
 cuvez /ky.ve/  | 
 cuvent /kyv/  | 
| imperfect |  cuvais /ky.vɛ/  | 
 cuvais /ky.vɛ/  | 
 cuvait /ky.vɛ/  | 
 cuvions /ky.vjɔ̃/  | 
 cuviez /ky.vje/  | 
 cuvaient /ky.vɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  cuvai /ky.ve/  | 
cuvas /ky.va/  | 
cuva /ky.va/  | 
cuvâmes /ky.vam/  | 
cuvâtes /ky.vat/  | 
cuvèrent /ky.vɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  cuverai /ky.vʁe/  | 
 cuveras /ky.vʁa/  | 
 cuvera /ky.vʁa/  | 
 cuverons /ky.vʁɔ̃/  | 
 cuverez /ky.vʁe/  | 
 cuveront /ky.vʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  cuverais /ky.vʁɛ/  | 
 cuverais /ky.vʁɛ/  | 
 cuverait /ky.vʁɛ/  | 
 cuverions /ky.və.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 cuveriez /ky.və.ʁje/  | 
 cuveraient /ky.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 |  cuve /kyv/  | 
 cuves /kyv/  | 
 cuve /kyv/  | 
 cuvions /ky.vjɔ̃/  | 
 cuviez /ky.vje/  | 
 cuvent /kyv/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
cuvasse /ky.vas/  | 
cuvasses /ky.vas/  | 
cuvât /ky.va/  | 
cuvassions /ky.va.sjɔ̃/  | 
cuvassiez /ky.va.sje/  | 
cuvassent /ky.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 | – | |
| — |  cuve /kyv/  | 
— |  cuvons /ky.vɔ̃/  | 
 cuvez /ky.ve/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||