épépiner

French

Etymology

é- +‎ pépin +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.pe.pi.ne/

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Verb

épépiner

1. to deseed, to remove the pips from something.

Conjugation

Conjugation of épépiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	épépiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	épépinant /e.pe.pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		épépiné /e.pe.pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	épépine /e.pe.pin/	épépines /e.pe.pin/	épépine /e.pe.pin/	épépinons /e.pe.pi.nɔ̃/	épépinez /e.pe.pi.ne/	épépinent /e.pe.pin/
	imperfect	épépinais /e.pe.pi.nɛ/	épépinais /e.pe.pi.nɛ/	épépinait /e.pe.pi.nɛ/	épépinions /e.pe.pi.njɔ̃/	épépiniez /e.pe.pi.nje/	épépinaient /e.pe.pi.nɛ/
	past historic2	épépinai /e.pe.pi.ne/	épépinas /e.pe.pi.na/	épépina /e.pe.pi.na/	épépinâmes /e.pe.pi.nam/	épépinâtes /e.pe.pi.nat/	épépinèrent /e.pe.pi.nɛʁ/
	future	épépinerai /e.pe.pin.ʁe/	épépineras /e.pe.pin.ʁa/	épépinera /e.pe.pin.ʁa/	épépinerons /e.pe.pin.ʁɔ̃/	épépinerez /e.pe.pin.ʁe/	épépineront /e.pe.pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	épépinerais /e.pe.pin.ʁɛ/	épépinerais /e.pe.pin.ʁɛ/	épépinerait /e.pe.pin.ʁɛ/	épépinerions /e.pe.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	épépineriez /e.pe.pi.nə.ʁje/	épépineraient /e.pe.pin.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	épépine /e.pe.pin/	épépines /e.pe.pin/	épépine /e.pe.pin/	épépinions /e.pe.pi.njɔ̃/	épépiniez /e.pe.pi.nje/	épépinent /e.pe.pin/
	imperfect2	épépinasse /e.pe.pi.nas/	épépinasses /e.pe.pi.nas/	épépinât /e.pe.pi.na/	épépinassions /e.pe.pi.na.sjɔ̃/	épépinassiez /e.pe.pi.na.sje/	épépinassent /e.pe.pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	épépine /e.pe.pin/	—	épépinons /e.pe.pi.nɔ̃/	épépinez /e.pe.pi.ne/	—
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

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