tituber

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin titubāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ty.be/

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Verb

tituber

1. (intransitive) to stagger
   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 167:

     Plus tard, il ne s’est rien passé. Octave a ramené Odile dans sa chambre ; elle titubait.

     Later, nothing happened. Octave brought Odile back into her room, she was staggering.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tituber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tituber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	titubant /ti.ty.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		titubé /ti.ty.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	titube /ti.tyb/	titubes /ti.tyb/	titube /ti.tyb/	titubons /ti.ty.bɔ̃/	titubez /ti.ty.be/	titubent /ti.tyb/
	imperfect	titubais /ti.ty.bɛ/	titubais /ti.ty.bɛ/	titubait /ti.ty.bɛ/	titubions /ti.ty.bjɔ̃/	titubiez /ti.ty.bje/	titubaient /ti.ty.bɛ/
	past historic2	titubai /ti.ty.be/	titubas /ti.ty.ba/	tituba /ti.ty.ba/	titubâmes /ti.ty.bam/	titubâtes /ti.ty.bat/	titubèrent /ti.ty.bɛʁ/
	future	tituberai /ti.ty.bʁe/	tituberas /ti.ty.bʁa/	titubera /ti.ty.bʁa/	tituberons /ti.ty.bʁɔ̃/	tituberez /ti.ty.bʁe/	tituberont /ti.ty.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tituberais /ti.ty.bʁɛ/	tituberais /ti.ty.bʁɛ/	tituberait /ti.ty.bʁɛ/	tituberions /ti.ty.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	tituberiez /ti.ty.bə.ʁje/	tituberaient /ti.ty.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	titube /ti.tyb/	titubes /ti.tyb/	titube /ti.tyb/	titubions /ti.ty.bjɔ̃/	titubiez /ti.ty.bje/	titubent /ti.tyb/
	imperfect2	titubasse /ti.ty.bas/	titubasses /ti.ty.bas/	titubât /ti.ty.ba/	titubassions /ti.ty.ba.sjɔ̃/	titubassiez /ti.ty.ba.sje/	titubassent /ti.ty.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	titube /ti.tyb/	—	titubons /ti.ty.bɔ̃/	titubez /ti.ty.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: 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).

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɪ.tʊ.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtiː.tu.ber]

Verb

tituber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of titubō