trépigner
French
Etymology
From a suffixed form of Old French treper. Cognate with English trape (“to run about idly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁe.pi.ɲe/
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Verb
trépigner
- (intransitive) to stamp or shuffle one's feet (usually of horses or humans)
- Synonym: piétiner
- (intransitive, figurative) to wait nervously or angrily
- 2004 June 1, Jérôme Dupuis, “Comment L'usage du monde est devenu un livre culte”, in L'Express:
- C'est justement l'ami Thierry et son épouse Floristella qui ont commandé le champagne, au bar de l'Hôtel de Hollande, rue Cadet, à Paris. Eliane, l'épouse de Nicolas Bouvier, trépigne à leurs côtés.
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- (transitive) to trample
- (transitive, figurative) to severely criticize, to speak badly of
- (transitive, slang, dated) to beat up
Conjugation
Conjugation of trépigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | trépigner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | trépignant /tʁe.pi.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | trépigné /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ | trépignes /tʁe.piɲ/ | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ | trépignons /tʁe.pi.ɲɔ̃/ | trépignez /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ | trépignent /tʁe.piɲ/ |
imperfect | trépignais /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ | trépignais /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ | trépignait /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ | trépignions /tʁe.pi.ɲjɔ̃/ | trépigniez /tʁe.pi.ɲje/ | trépignaient /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ | |
past historic2 | trépignai /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ | trépignas /tʁe.pi.ɲa/ | trépigna /tʁe.pi.ɲa/ | trépignâmes /tʁe.pi.ɲam/ | trépignâtes /tʁe.pi.ɲat/ | trépignèrent /tʁe.pi.ɲɛʁ/ | |
future | trépignerai /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁe/ | trépigneras /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁa/ | trépignera /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁa/ | trépignerons /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | trépignerez /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁe/ | trépigneront /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | trépignerais /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | trépignerais /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | trépignerait /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | trépignerions /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ | trépigneriez /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁje/ | trépigneraient /tʁe.pi.ɲə.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 | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ | trépignes /tʁe.piɲ/ | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ | trépignions /tʁe.pi.ɲjɔ̃/ | trépigniez /tʁe.pi.ɲje/ | trépignent /tʁe.piɲ/ |
imperfect2 | trépignasse /tʁe.pi.ɲas/ | trépignasses /tʁe.pi.ɲas/ | trépignât /tʁe.pi.ɲa/ | trépignassions /tʁe.pi.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ | trépignassiez /tʁe.pi.ɲa.sje/ | trépignassent /tʁe.pi.ɲas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ | — | trépignons /tʁe.pi.ɲɔ̃/ | trépignez /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ | — | |
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
- “trépigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.