tourber
French, verb\tuʁ.be\
tourber is a French verb meaning “to dig up peat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exploiter, enlever la tourbe”.
What does tourber mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dig up peat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exploiter, enlever la tourbe. 2. Enlever la tourbe d'un marais. 3. Être réduit en tourbe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tourber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tourbant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tourbé participle past
- tourbe first-person indicative present
- tourbes indicative present second-person
- tourbons first-person indicative plural
- tourbez indicative plural present
- tourbent indicative plural present
- tourbais first-person imperfect indicative
- tourbait imperfect indicative singular
- tourbions first-person imperfect indicative
- tourbiez imperfect indicative plural
- tourbaient imperfect indicative plural
- tourbai first-person historic indicative
- tourbas historic indicative past
- tourba historic indicative past
- tourbâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tourber?
- \tuʁ.be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.