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

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.pe/
• Homophones: chipai, chipé, chipée, chipées, chipés, chipez

Verb

chiper

1. (transitive, colloquial) to pinch; to steal; to rob

Conjugation

Conjugation of chiper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chiper
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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