écoper
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
écoper
- (nautical) to bail out
- (colloquial, intransitive, or transitive with de) to get, to be on the receiving end
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Il va vraisemblablement écoper d’une retenue sur salaire et d’un sursis, rien de bien terrible.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of écoper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | écoper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | écopant /e.kɔ.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | écopé /e.kɔ.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | écope /e.kɔp/ |
écopes /e.kɔp/ |
écope /e.kɔp/ |
écopons /e.kɔ.pɔ̃/ |
écopez /e.kɔ.pe/ |
écopent /e.kɔp/ |
| imperfect | écopais /e.kɔ.pɛ/ |
écopais /e.kɔ.pɛ/ |
écopait /e.kɔ.pɛ/ |
écopions /e.kɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
écopiez /e.kɔ.pje/ |
écopaient /e.kɔ.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | écopai /e.kɔ.pe/ |
écopas /e.kɔ.pa/ |
écopa /e.kɔ.pa/ |
écopâmes /e.kɔ.pam/ |
écopâtes /e.kɔ.pat/ |
écopèrent /e.kɔ.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | écoperai /e.kɔ.pʁe/ |
écoperas /e.kɔ.pʁa/ |
écopera /e.kɔ.pʁa/ |
écoperons /e.kɔ.pʁɔ̃/ |
écoperez /e.kɔ.pʁe/ |
écoperont /e.kɔ.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | écoperais /e.kɔ.pʁɛ/ |
écoperais /e.kɔ.pʁɛ/ |
écoperait /e.kɔ.pʁɛ/ |
écoperions /e.kɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écoperiez /e.kɔ.pə.ʁje/ |
écoperaient /e.kɔ.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | écope /e.kɔp/ |
écopes /e.kɔp/ |
écope /e.kɔp/ |
écopions /e.kɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
écopiez /e.kɔ.pje/ |
écopent /e.kɔp/ |
| imperfect2 | écopasse /e.kɔ.pas/ |
écopasses /e.kɔ.pas/ |
écopât /e.kɔ.pa/ |
écopassions /e.kɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
écopassiez /e.kɔ.pa.sje/ |
écopassent /e.kɔ.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | écope /e.kɔp/ |
— | écopons /e.kɔ.pɔ̃/ |
écopez /e.kɔ.pe/ |
— | |
| 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[edit]
- “écoper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.