radouber
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.du.be/
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Verb
radouber
- (transitive, nautical) to refit
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- On disait qu'une princesse polonaise, l'écoutant un soir chanter sur la plage de Biarritz, où il radoubait des chaloupes, en était devenue amoureuse.
- They said that a Polish princess having heard him sing one night on the beach at Biarritz, where he mended boats, had fallen in love with him.
- (transitive) to repair
Conjugation
Conjugation of radouber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | radouber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | radoubant /ʁa.du.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | radoubé /ʁa.du.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | radoube /ʁa.dub/ |
radoubes /ʁa.dub/ |
radoube /ʁa.dub/ |
radoubons /ʁa.du.bɔ̃/ |
radoubez /ʁa.du.be/ |
radoubent /ʁa.dub/ |
| imperfect | radoubais /ʁa.du.bɛ/ |
radoubais /ʁa.du.bɛ/ |
radoubait /ʁa.du.bɛ/ |
radoubions /ʁa.du.bjɔ̃/ |
radoubiez /ʁa.du.bje/ |
radoubaient /ʁa.du.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | radoubai /ʁa.du.be/ |
radoubas /ʁa.du.ba/ |
radouba /ʁa.du.ba/ |
radoubâmes /ʁa.du.bam/ |
radoubâtes /ʁa.du.bat/ |
radoubèrent /ʁa.du.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | radouberai /ʁa.du.bʁe/ |
radouberas /ʁa.du.bʁa/ |
radoubera /ʁa.du.bʁa/ |
radouberons /ʁa.du.bʁɔ̃/ |
radouberez /ʁa.du.bʁe/ |
radouberont /ʁa.du.bʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | radouberais /ʁa.du.bʁɛ/ |
radouberais /ʁa.du.bʁɛ/ |
radouberait /ʁa.du.bʁɛ/ |
radouberions /ʁa.du.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
radouberiez /ʁa.du.bə.ʁje/ |
radouberaient /ʁa.du.bʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | radoube /ʁa.dub/ |
radoubes /ʁa.dub/ |
radoube /ʁa.dub/ |
radoubions /ʁa.du.bjɔ̃/ |
radoubiez /ʁa.du.bje/ |
radoubent /ʁa.dub/ |
| imperfect2 | radoubasse /ʁa.du.bas/ |
radoubasses /ʁa.du.bas/ |
radoubât /ʁa.du.ba/ |
radoubassions /ʁa.du.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
radoubassiez /ʁa.du.ba.sje/ |
radoubassent /ʁa.du.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | radoube /ʁa.dub/ |
— | radoubons /ʁa.du.bɔ̃/ |
radoubez /ʁa.du.be/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “radouber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012