estropier

French

Etymology

From Italian stroppiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.tʁɔ.pje/

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Verb

estropier

1. (transitive) cripple, maim
2. (transitive) (informal, particularly of pronunciation of unfamiliar languages and the like) to mangle; to distort, to deform, to twist
3. (reflexive)

Conjugation

Conjugation of estropier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	estropier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	estropiant /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		estropié /ɛs.tʁɔ.pje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	estropie /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	estropies /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	estropie /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	estropions /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɔ̃/	estropiez /ɛs.tʁɔ.pje/	estropient /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/
	imperfect	estropiais /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɛ/	estropiais /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɛ/	estropiait /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɛ/	estropiions /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	estropiiez /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.je/	estropiaient /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɛ/
	past historic2	estropiai /ɛs.tʁɔ.pje/	estropias /ɛs.tʁɔ.pja/	estropia /ɛs.tʁɔ.pja/	estropiâmes /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjam/	estropiâtes /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjat/	estropièrent /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɛʁ/
	future	estropierai /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁe/	estropieras /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁa/	estropiera /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁa/	estropierons /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/	estropierez /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁe/	estropieront /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	estropierais /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	estropierais /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	estropierait /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	estropierions /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	estropieriez /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.ʁje/	estropieraient /ɛs.tʁɔ.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	estropie /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	estropies /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	estropie /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	estropiions /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	estropiiez /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi.je/	estropient /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/
	imperfect2	estropiasse /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjas/	estropiasses /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjas/	estropiât /ɛs.tʁɔ.pja/	estropiassions /ɛs.tʁɔ.pja.sjɔ̃/	estropiassiez /ɛs.tʁɔ.pja.sje/	estropiassent /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	estropie /ɛs.tʁɔ.pi/	—	estropions /ɛs.tʁɔ.pjɔ̃/	estropiez /ɛs.tʁɔ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• estropié
• estropiement

Further reading

• “estropier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.