carapater

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

carapater

1. (informal) to run, to make haste
2. (informal, reflexive) to run away

Conjugation

Conjugation of carapater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	carapater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	carapatant /ka.ʁa.pa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		carapaté /ka.ʁa.pa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	carapate /ka.ʁa.pat/	carapates /ka.ʁa.pat/	carapate /ka.ʁa.pat/	carapatons /ka.ʁa.pa.tɔ̃/	carapatez /ka.ʁa.pa.te/	carapatent /ka.ʁa.pat/
	imperfect	carapatais /ka.ʁa.pa.tɛ/	carapatais /ka.ʁa.pa.tɛ/	carapatait /ka.ʁa.pa.tɛ/	carapations /ka.ʁa.pa.tjɔ̃/	carapatiez /ka.ʁa.pa.tje/	carapataient /ka.ʁa.pa.tɛ/
	past historic2	carapatai /ka.ʁa.pa.te/	carapatas /ka.ʁa.pa.ta/	carapata /ka.ʁa.pa.ta/	carapatâmes /ka.ʁa.pa.tam/	carapatâtes /ka.ʁa.pa.tat/	carapatèrent /ka.ʁa.pa.tɛʁ/
	future	carapaterai /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁe/	carapateras /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁa/	carapatera /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁa/	carapaterons /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁɔ̃/	carapaterez /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁe/	carapateront /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	carapaterais /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁɛ/	carapaterais /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁɛ/	carapaterait /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁɛ/	carapaterions /ka.ʁa.pa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	carapateriez /ka.ʁa.pa.tə.ʁje/	carapateraient /ka.ʁa.pa.tʁɛ/
(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	carapate /ka.ʁa.pat/	carapates /ka.ʁa.pat/	carapate /ka.ʁa.pat/	carapations /ka.ʁa.pa.tjɔ̃/	carapatiez /ka.ʁa.pa.tje/	carapatent /ka.ʁa.pat/
	imperfect2	carapatasse /ka.ʁa.pa.tas/	carapatasses /ka.ʁa.pa.tas/	carapatât /ka.ʁa.pa.ta/	carapatassions /ka.ʁa.pa.ta.sjɔ̃/	carapatassiez /ka.ʁa.pa.ta.sje/	carapatassent /ka.ʁa.pa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	carapate /ka.ʁa.pat/	—	carapatons /ka.ʁa.pa.tɔ̃/	carapatez /ka.ʁa.pa.te/	—
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).

Further reading

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