choper
See also: chopper
French
Alternative forms
- pécho (verlan)
Etymology
From chopper (“to stumble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɔ.pe/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Verb
choper (informal)
- to steal, nick, pinch
- Synonyms: piquer, voler
- Mon blouson a éte chopé par un voleur.
- My jacket was stolen by a thief.
- to arrest, catch
- Synonym: arrêter
- Il s’est fait choper par les flics en sortant de chez lui.
- He was caught by the cops when he left his house.
- to pick up, collect a passenger
- Synonym: aller chercher
- Veux-tu que je vienne te choper à la gare?
- Do you want me to pick you up at the station?
- to contract a disese, to develop an illness
Conjugation
Conjugation of choper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | choper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chopant /ʃɔ.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chopé /ʃɔ.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | chope /ʃɔp/ | chopes /ʃɔp/ | chope /ʃɔp/ | chopons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/ | chopez /ʃɔ.pe/ | chopent /ʃɔp/ |
| imperfect | chopais /ʃɔ.pɛ/ | chopais /ʃɔ.pɛ/ | chopait /ʃɔ.pɛ/ | chopions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/ | chopiez /ʃɔ.pje/ | chopaient /ʃɔ.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chopai /ʃɔ.pe/ | chopas /ʃɔ.pa/ | chopa /ʃɔ.pa/ | chopâmes /ʃɔ.pam/ | chopâtes /ʃɔ.pat/ | chopèrent /ʃɔ.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | choperai /ʃɔ.pʁe/ | choperas /ʃɔ.pʁa/ | chopera /ʃɔ.pʁa/ | choperons /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/ | choperez /ʃɔ.pʁe/ | choperont /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | choperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/ | choperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/ | choperait /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/ | choperions /ʃɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | choperiez /ʃɔ.pə.ʁje/ | choperaient /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | chope /ʃɔp/ | chopes /ʃɔp/ | chope /ʃɔp/ | chopions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/ | chopiez /ʃɔ.pje/ | chopent /ʃɔp/ |
| imperfect2 | chopasse /ʃɔ.pas/ | chopasses /ʃɔ.pas/ | chopât /ʃɔ.pa/ | chopassions /ʃɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/ | chopassiez /ʃɔ.pa.sje/ | chopassent /ʃɔ.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chope /ʃɔp/ | — | chopons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/ | chopez /ʃɔ.pe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- pécho
Further reading
- “choper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- pocher, proche