croupir
French
Etymology
croupe + -ir [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁu.piʁ/
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Verb
croupir
- (of water) to stagnate
- to wallow (remain miserable)
- croupir dans la misère ― to wallow in misery
- 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 | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
- accroupir
- croupi
- croupissement
See also
- stagner
References
- “croupir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.