esquinter
French edit
Etymology edit
From Occitan esquintar, from Old Occitan esquintar, probably from Vulgar Latin *exquintare (“divide into five”), from Latin ex- + quintus.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
esquinter
- to damage, ruin, or wear out, especially through use or misuse
- Ce livre est entièrement esquinté par manque de soin.
- This book is all beat up from carelessness.
- À sauter sur ce fauteuil, tu vas l’esquinter.
- You're going to ruin that armchair by jumping on it.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of esquinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | esquinter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | esquintant /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | esquinté /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintes /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
esquintez /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ |
esquintent /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | esquintais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
esquintais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
esquintait /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
esquintions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
esquintiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tje/ |
esquintaient /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | esquintai /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ |
esquintas /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta/ |
esquinta /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta/ |
esquintâmes /ɛs.kɛ̃.tam/ |
esquintâtes /ɛs.kɛ̃.tat/ |
esquintèrent /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | esquinterai /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁe/ |
esquinteras /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁa/ |
esquintera /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁa/ |
esquinterons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
esquinterez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁe/ |
esquinteront /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | esquinterais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
esquinterais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
esquinterait /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
esquinterions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
esquinteriez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
esquinteraient /ɛs.kɛ̃.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 | esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintes /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
esquintiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tje/ |
esquintent /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | esquintasse /ɛs.kɛ̃.tas/ |
esquintasses /ɛs.kɛ̃.tas/ |
esquintât /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta/ |
esquintassions /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
esquintassiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
esquintassent /ɛs.kɛ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
— | esquintons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
esquintez /ɛs.kɛ̃.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “esquinter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.