clopiner
French
Etymology
From Old French clop (“that hobbles; hobbling”), from Late Latin *cloppus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɔ.pi.ne/
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Verb
clopiner
Conjugation
Conjugation of clopiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | clopiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | clopinant /klɔ.pi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | clopiné /klɔ.pi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | clopine /klɔ.pin/ |
clopines /klɔ.pin/ |
clopine /klɔ.pin/ |
clopinons /klɔ.pi.nɔ̃/ |
clopinez /klɔ.pi.ne/ |
clopinent /klɔ.pin/ |
| imperfect | clopinais /klɔ.pi.nɛ/ |
clopinais /klɔ.pi.nɛ/ |
clopinait /klɔ.pi.nɛ/ |
clopinions /klɔ.pi.njɔ̃/ |
clopiniez /klɔ.pi.nje/ |
clopinaient /klɔ.pi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | clopinai /klɔ.pi.ne/ |
clopinas /klɔ.pi.na/ |
clopina /klɔ.pi.na/ |
clopinâmes /klɔ.pi.nam/ |
clopinâtes /klɔ.pi.nat/ |
clopinèrent /klɔ.pi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | clopinerai /klɔ.pin.ʁe/ |
clopineras /klɔ.pin.ʁa/ |
clopinera /klɔ.pin.ʁa/ |
clopinerons /klɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/ |
clopinerez /klɔ.pin.ʁe/ |
clopineront /klɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | clopinerais /klɔ.pin.ʁɛ/ |
clopinerais /klɔ.pin.ʁɛ/ |
clopinerait /klɔ.pin.ʁɛ/ |
clopinerions /klɔ.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
clopineriez /klɔ.pi.nə.ʁje/ |
clopineraient /klɔ.pin.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 | clopine /klɔ.pin/ |
clopines /klɔ.pin/ |
clopine /klɔ.pin/ |
clopinions /klɔ.pi.njɔ̃/ |
clopiniez /klɔ.pi.nje/ |
clopinent /klɔ.pin/ |
| imperfect2 | clopinasse /klɔ.pi.nas/ |
clopinasses /klɔ.pi.nas/ |
clopinât /klɔ.pi.na/ |
clopinassions /klɔ.pi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
clopinassiez /klɔ.pi.na.sje/ |
clopinassent /klɔ.pi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | clopine /klɔ.pin/ |
— | clopinons /klɔ.pi.nɔ̃/ |
clopinez /klɔ.pi.ne/ |
— | |
| 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
- “clopiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.