chipoter
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French chipe (“bit, scrap”) + -oter.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
chipoter
- (transitive, intransitive) to nibble
- (transitive, intransitive) to quibble, haggle
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of chipoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chipoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chipotant /ʃi.pɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chipoté /ʃi.pɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotes /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotons /ʃi.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
chipotez /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
chipotent /ʃi.pɔt/ |
| imperfect | chipotais /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
chipotais /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
chipotait /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
chipotions /ʃi.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
chipotiez /ʃi.pɔ.tje/ |
chipotaient /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chipotai /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
chipotas /ʃi.pɔ.ta/ |
chipota /ʃi.pɔ.ta/ |
chipotâmes /ʃi.pɔ.tam/ |
chipotâtes /ʃi.pɔ.tat/ |
chipotèrent /ʃi.pɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | chipoterai /ʃi.pɔ.tʁe/ |
chipoteras /ʃi.pɔ.tʁa/ |
chipotera /ʃi.pɔ.tʁa/ |
chipoterons /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
chipoterez /ʃi.pɔ.tʁe/ |
chipoteront /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chipoterais /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
chipoterais /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
chipoterait /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
chipoterions /ʃi.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chipoteriez /ʃi.pɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
chipoteraient /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotes /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotions /ʃi.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
chipotiez /ʃi.pɔ.tje/ |
chipotent /ʃi.pɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | chipotasse /ʃi.pɔ.tas/ |
chipotasses /ʃi.pɔ.tas/ |
chipotât /ʃi.pɔ.ta/ |
chipotassions /ʃi.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
chipotassiez /ʃi.pɔ.ta.sje/ |
chipotassent /ʃi.pɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
— | chipotons /ʃi.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
chipotez /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “chipoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.