turlupiner

French

Etymology

After Turlupin, the stage name of comic actor Henri Legrand.

Pronunciation

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Verb

turlupiner

1. (transitive) to make fun of, to take the mickey out of

Conjugation

Conjugation of turlupiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	turlupiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	turlupinant /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		turlupiné /tyʁ.ly.pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	turlupine /tyʁ.ly.pin/	turlupines /tyʁ.ly.pin/	turlupine /tyʁ.ly.pin/	turlupinons /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɔ̃/	turlupinez /tyʁ.ly.pi.ne/	turlupinent /tyʁ.ly.pin/
	imperfect	turlupinais /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɛ/	turlupinais /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɛ/	turlupinait /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɛ/	turlupinions /tyʁ.ly.pi.njɔ̃/	turlupiniez /tyʁ.ly.pi.nje/	turlupinaient /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɛ/
	past historic2	turlupinai /tyʁ.ly.pi.ne/	turlupinas /tyʁ.ly.pi.na/	turlupina /tyʁ.ly.pi.na/	turlupinâmes /tyʁ.ly.pi.nam/	turlupinâtes /tyʁ.ly.pi.nat/	turlupinèrent /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɛʁ/
	future	turlupinerai /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁe/	turlupineras /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁa/	turlupinera /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁa/	turlupinerons /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁɔ̃/	turlupinerez /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁe/	turlupineront /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	turlupinerais /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁɛ/	turlupinerais /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁɛ/	turlupinerait /tyʁ.ly.pin.ʁɛ/	turlupinerions /tyʁ.ly.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	turlupineriez /tyʁ.ly.pi.nə.ʁje/	turlupineraient /tyʁ.ly.pin.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	turlupine /tyʁ.ly.pin/	turlupines /tyʁ.ly.pin/	turlupine /tyʁ.ly.pin/	turlupinions /tyʁ.ly.pi.njɔ̃/	turlupiniez /tyʁ.ly.pi.nje/	turlupinent /tyʁ.ly.pin/
	imperfect2	turlupinasse /tyʁ.ly.pi.nas/	turlupinasses /tyʁ.ly.pi.nas/	turlupinât /tyʁ.ly.pi.na/	turlupinassions /tyʁ.ly.pi.na.sjɔ̃/	turlupinassiez /tyʁ.ly.pi.na.sje/	turlupinassent /tyʁ.ly.pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	turlupine /tyʁ.ly.pin/	—	turlupinons /tyʁ.ly.pi.nɔ̃/	turlupinez /tyʁ.ly.pi.ne/	—
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

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