pépier
French
Etymology
Ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Latin pīpiō, English peep.
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Pronunciation
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Conjugation
Conjugation of pépier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pépier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Further reading
- “pépier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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