cuirer

French

Etymology

From cuir +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cuirer

1. to leather (cover with leather)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cuirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cuirant /kɥi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cuiré /kɥi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cuire /kɥiʁ/	cuires /kɥiʁ/	cuire /kɥiʁ/	cuirons /kɥi.ʁɔ̃/	cuirez /kɥi.ʁe/	cuirent /kɥiʁ/
	imperfect	cuirais /kɥi.ʁɛ/	cuirais /kɥi.ʁɛ/	cuirait /kɥi.ʁɛ/	cuirions /kɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	cuiriez /kɥi.ʁje/	cuiraient /kɥi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	cuirai /kɥi.ʁe/	cuiras /kɥi.ʁa/	cuira /kɥi.ʁa/	cuirâmes /kɥi.ʁam/	cuirâtes /kɥi.ʁat/	cuirèrent /kɥi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	cuirerai /kɥi.ʁə.ʁe/	cuireras /kɥi.ʁə.ʁa/	cuirera /kɥi.ʁə.ʁa/	cuirerons /kɥi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cuirerez /kɥi.ʁə.ʁe/	cuireront /kɥi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cuirerais /kɥi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	cuirerais /kɥi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	cuirerait /kɥi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	cuirerions /kɥi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cuireriez /kɥi.ʁə.ʁje/	cuireraient /kɥi.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(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	cuire /kɥiʁ/	cuires /kɥiʁ/	cuire /kɥiʁ/	cuirions /kɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	cuiriez /kɥi.ʁje/	cuirent /kɥiʁ/
	imperfect2	cuirasse /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirasses /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirât /kɥi.ʁa/	cuirassions /kɥi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	cuirassiez /kɥi.ʁa.sje/	cuirassent /kɥi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cuire /kɥiʁ/	—	cuirons /kɥi.ʁɔ̃/	cuirez /kɥi.ʁe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• recuirer

Further reading

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