rapiécer

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ a- +‎ pièce +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pje.se/

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Verb

rapiécer

1. (transitive) to patch

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like rapiécer. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -cer (such as pincer, where a silent 'e' is inserted before 'a' and 'o' endings (to indicate the /s/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder, where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è').

Conjugation of rapiécer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rapiécer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rapiéçant /ʁa.pje.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rapiécé /ʁa.pje.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rapièce /ʁa.pjɛs/	rapièces /ʁa.pjɛs/	rapièce /ʁa.pjɛs/	rapiéçons /ʁa.pje.sɔ̃/	rapiécez /ʁa.pje.se/	rapiècent /ʁa.pjɛs/
	imperfect	rapiéçais /ʁa.pje.sɛ/	rapiéçais /ʁa.pje.sɛ/	rapiéçait /ʁa.pje.sɛ/	rapiécions /ʁa.pje.sjɔ̃/	rapiéciez /ʁa.pje.sje/	rapiéçaient /ʁa.pje.sɛ/
	past historic2	rapiéçai /ʁa.pje.se/	rapiéças /ʁa.pje.sa/	rapiéça /ʁa.pje.sa/	rapiéçâmes /ʁa.pje.sam/	rapiéçâtes /ʁa.pje.sat/	rapiécèrent /ʁa.pje.sɛʁ/
	future	rapiécerai or rapiècerai /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁe/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁe/	rapiéceras or rapièceras /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁa/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁa/	rapiécera or rapiècera /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁa/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁa/	rapiécerons or rapiècerons /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁɔ̃/	rapiécerez or rapiècerez /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁe/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁe/	rapiéceront or rapièceront /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rapiécerais or rapiècerais /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁɛ/	rapiécerais or rapiècerais /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁɛ/	rapiécerait or rapiècerait /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁɛ/	rapiécerions or rapiècerions /ʁa.pjɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pje.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	rapiéceriez or rapièceriez /ʁa.pjɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /ʁa.pje.sə.ʁje/	rapiéceraient or rapièceraient /ʁa.pjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pje.sʁɛ/
(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	rapièce /ʁa.pjɛs/	rapièces /ʁa.pjɛs/	rapièce /ʁa.pjɛs/	rapiécions /ʁa.pje.sjɔ̃/	rapiéciez /ʁa.pje.sje/	rapiècent /ʁa.pjɛs/
	imperfect2	rapiéçasse /ʁa.pje.sas/	rapiéçasses /ʁa.pje.sas/	rapiéçât /ʁa.pje.sa/	rapiéçassions /ʁa.pje.sa.sjɔ̃/	rapiéçassiez /ʁa.pje.sa.sje/	rapiéçassent /ʁa.pje.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rapièce /ʁa.pjɛs/	—	rapiéçons /ʁa.pje.sɔ̃/	rapiécez /ʁa.pje.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

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