cuber
English
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
Noun
cuber (plural cubers)
- Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
- 1920, Hotel Monthly, volume 28, numbers 322-333, page 29:
- Another interesting exhibit was a bread cutter with circular revolving blade. Their newest machine is the Sterling vegetable cuber […]
Translations
device for cutting things into cubes
Etymology 2
Etymology tree
Noun
cuber (plural cubers)
- A player of Rubik's cube.
- Synonyms: cubist, Rubik's cuber, Rubik's cubist
- Hyponym: speedcuber
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ky.be/
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Verb
cuber
- to cube (a number) (raise to the power of 3)
Conjugation
Conjugation of cuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cuber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cubant /ky.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cubé /ky.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cube /kyb/ |
cubes /kyb/ |
cube /kyb/ |
cubons /ky.bɔ̃/ |
cubez /ky.be/ |
cubent /kyb/ |
| imperfect | cubais /ky.bɛ/ |
cubais /ky.bɛ/ |
cubait /ky.bɛ/ |
cubions /ky.bjɔ̃/ |
cubiez /ky.bje/ |
cubaient /ky.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cubai /ky.be/ |
cubas /ky.ba/ |
cuba /ky.ba/ |
cubâmes /ky.bam/ |
cubâtes /ky.bat/ |
cubèrent /ky.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | cuberai /ky.bʁe/ |
cuberas /ky.bʁa/ |
cubera /ky.bʁa/ |
cuberons /ky.bʁɔ̃/ |
cuberez /ky.bʁe/ |
cuberont /ky.bʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cuberais /ky.bʁɛ/ |
cuberais /ky.bʁɛ/ |
cuberait /ky.bʁɛ/ |
cuberions /ky.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cuberiez /ky.bə.ʁje/ |
cuberaient /ky.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 | cube /kyb/ |
cubes /kyb/ |
cube /kyb/ |
cubions /ky.bjɔ̃/ |
cubiez /ky.bje/ |
cubent /kyb/ |
| imperfect2 | cubasse /ky.bas/ |
cubasses /ky.bas/ |
cubât /ky.ba/ |
cubassions /ky.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
cubassiez /ky.ba.sje/ |
cubassent /ky.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cube /kyb/ |
— | cubons /ky.bɔ̃/ |
cubez /ky.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
- “cuber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012