croupir

French

Etymology

From croupe +‎ -ir [1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʁu.piʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

croupir

  1. (of water) to stagnate
  2. to wallow (remain miserable)
    croupir dans la misère ― to wallow in misery
  3. to rot (e.g. in prison)

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of croupir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple croupir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple croupissant
/kʁu.pi.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle croupi
/kʁu.pi/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present croupis
/kʁu.pi/		 croupis
/kʁu.pi/		 croupit
/kʁu.pi/		 croupissons
/kʁu.pi.sɔ̃/		 croupissez
/kʁu.pi.se/		 croupissent
/kʁu.pis/
imperfect croupissais
/kʁu.pi.sɛ/		 croupissais
/kʁu.pi.sɛ/		 croupissait
/kʁu.pi.sɛ/		 croupissions
/kʁu.pi.sjɔ̃/		 croupissiez
/kʁu.pi.sje/		 croupissaient
/kʁu.pi.sɛ/
past historic2 croupis
/kʁu.pi/		 croupis
/kʁu.pi/		 croupit
/kʁu.pi/		 croupîmes
/kʁu.pim/		 croupîtes
/kʁu.pit/		 croupirent
/kʁu.piʁ/
future croupirai
/kʁu.pi.ʁe/		 croupiras
/kʁu.pi.ʁa/		 croupira
/kʁu.pi.ʁa/		 croupirons
/kʁu.pi.ʁɔ̃/		 croupirez
/kʁu.pi.ʁe/		 croupiront
/kʁu.pi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional croupirais
/kʁu.pi.ʁɛ/		 croupirais
/kʁu.pi.ʁɛ/		 croupirait
/kʁu.pi.ʁɛ/		 croupirions
/kʁu.pi.ʁjɔ̃/		 croupiriez
/kʁu.pi.ʁje/		 croupiraient
/kʁu.pi.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 croupisse
/kʁu.pis/		 croupisses
/kʁu.pis/		 croupisse
/kʁu.pis/		 croupissions
/kʁu.pi.sjɔ̃/		 croupissiez
/kʁu.pi.sje/		 croupissent
/kʁu.pis/
imperfect2 croupisse
/kʁu.pis/		 croupisses
/kʁu.pis/		 croupît
/kʁu.pi/		 croupissions
/kʁu.pi.sjɔ̃/		 croupissiez
/kʁu.pi.sje/		 croupissent
/kʁu.pis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — croupis
/kʁu.pi/		 — croupissons
/kʁu.pi.sɔ̃/		 croupissez
/kʁu.pi.se/		 —
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).

See also

References
  1. “croupir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.