découvrir

Inherited from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discoperīre < discooperīre, from Latin dis- + cooperiō.

• IPA^(key): /de.ku.vʁiʁ/

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découvrir

1. to discover
2. to show, to reveal
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Un amas de guenilles lui recouvrait les épaules, et un vieux castor défoncé, s'arrondissant en cuvette, lui cachait la figure; mais, quand il le retirait, il découvrait, à la place des paupières, deux orbites béantes tout ensanglantées.

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3. to leave uncovered, to expose
4. to leave unprotected, to expose

This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle découvert is irregular.

• découverte f
• découvert
• découvreur

• Haitian Creole: dekouvri

• “découvrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012