déguerpir

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French déguerpir, deswerpir (“to leave”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French deguerpir (“to abandon”), from de- + guerpir (“to give up, abandon”), from Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *werpijan (“to throw, cast off”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, twist”). Compare Walloon diwerpi, Occitan degurpir, Middle French gurpir (“to give up, abandon”). Cognate with Old High German werfan (“to throw”), Old English weorpan (“to throw, cast, cast away”). More at warp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ/

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Verb

déguerpir

1. (intransitive) to flee, to run off; to scram, skedaddle, scarper
2. to bug

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of déguerpir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	déguerpir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	déguerpissant /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		déguerpi /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpit /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpissons /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɔ̃/	déguerpissez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.se/	déguerpissent /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/
	imperfect	déguerpissais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/	déguerpissais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/	déguerpissait /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/	déguerpissions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sjɔ̃/	déguerpissiez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sje/	déguerpissaient /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɛ/
	past historic2	déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpit /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpîmes /de.ɡɛʁ.pim/	déguerpîtes /de.ɡɛʁ.pit/	déguerpirent /de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ/
	future	déguerpirai /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁe/	déguerpiras /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁa/	déguerpira /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁa/	déguerpirons /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɔ̃/	déguerpirez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁe/	déguerpiront /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	déguerpirais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɛ/	déguerpirais /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɛ/	déguerpirait /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁɛ/	déguerpirions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	déguerpiriez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.ʁje/	déguerpiraient /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.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	déguerpisse /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/	déguerpisses /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/	déguerpisse /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/	déguerpissions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sjɔ̃/	déguerpissiez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sje/	déguerpissent /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/
	imperfect2	déguerpisse /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/	déguerpisses /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/	déguerpît /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	déguerpissions /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sjɔ̃/	déguerpissiez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sje/	déguerpissent /de.ɡɛʁ.pis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	déguerpis /de.ɡɛʁ.pi/	—	déguerpissons /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.sɔ̃/	déguerpissez /de.ɡɛʁ.pi.se/	—
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

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