déguerpir
French
Etymology
From Middle French déguerpir, deswerpir (“to leave”), from Old French deguerpir (“to abandon”), from de- + guerpir (“to give up, abandon”), from Frankish *wurpijan (“to throw, cast off”), from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, twist”). Compare Walloon diwerpi, Occitan degurpir, Middle French gurpir (“to give up, abandon”). Cognate with Old High German werfan (“to throw”), Old English weorpan (“to throw, cast, cast away”). More at warp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ/
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Verb
déguerpir
- (intransitive) to flee, to run off; to scram, skedaddle, scarper
- to bug
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-.
| infinitive | simple | déguerpir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | déguerpissant /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | déguerpi /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpit /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpissons /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɔ̃/ | déguerpissez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.se/ | déguerpissent /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ |
| imperfect | déguerpissais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/ | déguerpissais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/ | déguerpissait /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/ | déguerpissions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sjɔ̃/ | déguerpissiez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sje/ | déguerpissaient /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpit /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpîmes /de.ɡɛʁ.pim/ | déguerpîtes /de.ɡɛʁ.pit/ | déguerpirent /de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ/ | |
| future | déguerpirai /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁe/ | déguerpiras /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁa/ | déguerpira /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁa/ | déguerpirons /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɔ̃/ | déguerpirez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁe/ | déguerpiront /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | déguerpirais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɛ/ | déguerpirais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɛ/ | déguerpirait /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɛ/ | déguerpirions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ | déguerpiriez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁje/ | déguerpiraient /de.ɡɛʁ.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 | déguerpisse /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ | déguerpisses /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ | déguerpisse /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ | déguerpissions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sjɔ̃/ | déguerpissiez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sje/ | déguerpissent /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ |
| imperfect2 | déguerpisse /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ | déguerpisses /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ | déguerpît /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | déguerpissions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sjɔ̃/ | déguerpissiez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sje/ | déguerpissent /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/ | — | déguerpissons /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɔ̃/ | déguerpissez /de.ɡɛʁ.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “déguerpir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.