pépier
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
pépier
- to chirp (make a short sound of a bird)
Conjugation
Conjugation of pépier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | pépier | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pépiant /pe.pjɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pépié /pe.pje/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | pépie /pe.pi/ | pépies /pe.pi/ | pépie /pe.pi/ | pépions /pe.pjɔ̃/ | pépiez /pe.pje/ | pépient /pe.pi/ |
imperfect | pépiais /pe.pjɛ/ | pépiais /pe.pjɛ/ | pépiait /pe.pjɛ/ | pépiions /pe.pi.jɔ̃/ | pépiiez /pe.pi.je/ | pépiaient /pe.pjɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pépiai /pe.pje/ | pépias /pe.pja/ | pépia /pe.pja/ | pépiâmes /pe.pjam/ | pépiâtes /pe.pjat/ | pépièrent /pe.pjɛʁ/ | |
future | pépierai /pe.pi.ʁe/ | pépieras /pe.pi.ʁa/ | pépiera /pe.pi.ʁa/ | pépierons /pe.pi.ʁɔ̃/ | pépierez /pe.pi.ʁe/ | pépieront /pe.pi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pépierais /pe.pi.ʁɛ/ | pépierais /pe.pi.ʁɛ/ | pépierait /pe.pi.ʁɛ/ | pépierions /pe.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ | pépieriez /pe.pi.ʁje/ | pépieraient /pe.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 | pépie /pe.pi/ | pépies /pe.pi/ | pépie /pe.pi/ | pépiions /pe.pi.jɔ̃/ | pépiiez /pe.pi.je/ | pépient /pe.pi/ |
imperfect2 | pépiasse /pe.pjas/ | pépiasses /pe.pjas/ | pépiât /pe.pja/ | pépiassions /pe.pja.sjɔ̃/ | pépiassiez /pe.pja.sje/ | pépiassent /pe.pjas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pépie /pe.pi/ | — | pépions /pe.pjɔ̃/ | pépiez /pe.pje/ | — | |
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
- pépiement
Further reading
- “pépier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.