gerber
See also: Gerber
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from gerbe (“sheaf”), from Old French jarbe, garbe (“sheaf, ear of grain, wreath”), from Old Frankish *garba (“sheaf”), from Proto-Germanic *garbō (“sheaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh-, *gherbh- (“to snatch, take, rake”). Cognate with Old High German garba (“sheaf”), Middle Low German garve (“sheaf”). More at garb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɛʁ.be/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of gerber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | gerbant /ʒɛʁ.bɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | gerbé /ʒɛʁ.be/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | gerber | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | gerbant /ʒɛʁ.bɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | gerbe /ʒɛʁb/ |
gerbes /ʒɛʁb/ |
gerbe /ʒɛʁb/ |
gerbons /ʒɛʁ.bɔ̃/ |
gerbez /ʒɛʁ.be/ |
gerbent /ʒɛʁb/ |
| imperfect | gerbais /ʒɛʁ.bɛ/ |
gerbais /ʒɛʁ.bɛ/ |
gerbait /ʒɛʁ.bɛ/ |
gerbions /ʒɛʁ.bjɔ̃/ |
gerbiez /ʒɛʁ.bje/ |
gerbaient /ʒɛʁ.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gerbai /ʒɛʁ.be/ |
gerbas /ʒɛʁ.ba/ |
gerba /ʒɛʁ.ba/ |
gerbâmes /ʒɛʁ.bam/ |
gerbâtes /ʒɛʁ.bat/ |
gerbèrent /ʒɛʁ.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | gerberai /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁe/ |
gerberas /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁa/ |
gerbera /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁa/ |
gerberons /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ |
gerberez /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁe/ |
gerberont /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gerberais /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ |
gerberais /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ |
gerberait /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ |
gerberions /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gerberiez /ʒɛʁ.bə.ʁje/ |
gerberaient /ʒɛʁ.bə.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 | gerbe /ʒɛʁb/ |
gerbes /ʒɛʁb/ |
gerbe /ʒɛʁb/ |
gerbions /ʒɛʁ.bjɔ̃/ |
gerbiez /ʒɛʁ.bje/ |
gerbent /ʒɛʁb/ |
| imperfect2 | gerbasse /ʒɛʁ.bas/ |
gerbasses /ʒɛʁ.bas/ |
gerbât /ʒɛʁ.ba/ |
gerbassions /ʒɛʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
gerbassiez /ʒɛʁ.ba.sje/ |
gerbassent /ʒɛʁ.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gerbe /ʒɛʁb/ |
— | gerbons /ʒɛʁ.bɔ̃/ |
gerbez /ʒɛʁ.be/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- gerbe
- gerbeur
Further reading
- “gerber” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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