écoper

French

Etymology

From écope +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.kɔ.pe/

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Verb

écoper

1. (nautical) to bail out
2. (colloquial) to get
3. Template:indtr to be on the receiving end

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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