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culbuter
culbuter
French
Verb
culbuter
Conjugation
  Conjugation of culbuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | culbuter | avoir culbuté | |||||
| gerund | en culbutant | en ayant culbuté | |||||
| present participle | culbutant /kyl.by.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | culbuté /kyl.by.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutes /kyl.byt/ | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutons /kyl.by.tɔ̃/ | culbutez /kyl.by.te/ | culbutent /kyl.byt/ | 
| imperfect | culbutais /kyl.by.tɛ/ | culbutais /kyl.by.tɛ/ | culbutait /kyl.by.tɛ/ | culbutions /kyl.by.tjɔ̃/ | culbutiez /kyl.by.tje/ | culbutaient /kyl.by.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | culbutai /kyl.by.te/ | culbutas /kyl.by.ta/ | culbuta /kyl.by.ta/ | culbutâmes /kyl.by.tam/ | culbutâtes /kyl.by.tat/ | culbutèrent /kyl.by.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | culbuterai /kyl.by.tʁe/ | culbuteras /kyl.by.tʁa/ | culbutera /kyl.by.tʁa/ | culbuterons /kyl.by.tʁɔ̃/ | culbuterez /kyl.by.tʁe/ | culbuteront /kyl.by.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | culbuterais /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | culbuterais /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | culbuterait /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | culbuterions /kyl.by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | culbuteriez /kyl.by.tə.ʁje/ | culbuteraient /kyl.by.tʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutes /kyl.byt/ | culbute /kyl.byt/ | culbutions /kyl.by.tjɔ̃/ | culbutiez /kyl.by.tje/ | culbutent /kyl.byt/ | 
| imperfect1 | culbutasse /kyl.by.tas/ | culbutasses /kyl.by.tas/ | culbutât /kyl.by.ta/ | culbutassions /kyl.by.ta.sjɔ̃/ | culbutassiez /kyl.by.ta.sje/ | culbutassent /kyl.by.tas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | culbute /kyl.byt/ | — | culbutons /kyl.by.tɔ̃/ | culbutez /kyl.by.te/ | — | ||
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