chiper
French
Etymology
1759, "to steal, filch", probably a derivative of chippe (compare chiffe (“old cloth, rag”)) in the sense of "to hide something of little value", from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English chip, chippe (“fragment, worthless thing”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ċipp (“splinter, beam”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *kippaz, *kipaz (“beam, log”). More at chip.
Pronunciation
Verb
chiper
- (transitive, colloquial) to pinch; to steal; to rob
Conjugation
Conjugation of chiper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | chiper | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | chipant /ʃi.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | chipé /ʃi.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | chipe /ʃip/ |
chipes /ʃip/ |
chipe /ʃip/ |
chipons /ʃi.pɔ̃/ |
chipez /ʃi.pe/ |
chipent /ʃip/ |
imperfect | chipais /ʃi.pɛ/ |
chipais /ʃi.pɛ/ |
chipait /ʃi.pɛ/ |
chipions /ʃi.pjɔ̃/ |
chipiez /ʃi.pje/ |
chipaient /ʃi.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | chipai /ʃi.pe/ |
chipas /ʃi.pa/ |
chipa /ʃi.pa/ |
chipâmes /ʃi.pam/ |
chipâtes /ʃi.pat/ |
chipèrent /ʃi.pɛʁ/ | |
future | chiperai /ʃi.pʁe/ |
chiperas /ʃi.pʁa/ |
chipera /ʃi.pʁa/ |
chiperons /ʃi.pʁɔ̃/ |
chiperez /ʃi.pʁe/ |
chiperont /ʃi.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | chiperais /ʃi.pʁɛ/ |
chiperais /ʃi.pʁɛ/ |
chiperait /ʃi.pʁɛ/ |
chiperions /ʃi.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chiperiez /ʃi.pə.ʁje/ |
chiperaient /ʃi.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 | chipe /ʃip/ |
chipes /ʃip/ |
chipe /ʃip/ |
chipions /ʃi.pjɔ̃/ |
chipiez /ʃi.pje/ |
chipent /ʃip/ |
imperfect2 | chipasse /ʃi.pas/ |
chipasses /ʃi.pas/ |
chipât /ʃi.pa/ |
chipassions /ʃi.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
chipassiez /ʃi.pa.sje/ |
chipassent /ʃi.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | chipe /ʃip/ |
— | chipons /ʃi.pɔ̃/ |
chipez /ʃi.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
- “chiper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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