rapiécer
French
Etymology
From re- + a- + pièce + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
rapiécer
- (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 | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(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.