culbuter

French

Etymology

From culer + buter.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kyl.by.te/

Verb

culbuter

  1. (intransitive) to take a tumble, fall over (of a person); to overturn (of vehicle)
  2. (transitive) (vulgar) to have sex with someone, describing what one person does to another rather than what both do together.
    Pourquoi aurait-il échappé à la règle ? Combien de jouvencelles avait-il culbutées jadis ; combien de maris avait-il mis dans la situation où il se trouvait à l’heure actuelle ?
    Why would the rule not apply to him? How many young girls had he banged before; how many husband had he put in the very situation he was in now?
    (source: Louis Pergaud, La Vengeance du père Jourgeot, in Les Rustiques, nouvelles villageoises, 1921)

Conjugation
Conjugation of culbuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle culbutant
/kyl.by.tɑ̃/
past participle culbuté
/kyl.by.te/
infinitive
simple culbuter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple culbutant
/kyl.by.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(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 historic2 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 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 culbute
/kyl.byt/		 culbutes
/kyl.byt/		 culbute
/kyl.byt/		 culbutions
/kyl.by.tjɔ̃/		 culbutiez
/kyl.by.tje/		 culbutent
/kyl.byt/
imperfect2 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 present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — culbute
/kyl.byt/		 — culbutons
/kyl.by.tɔ̃/		 culbutez
/kyl.by.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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