syncoper

French

Etymology

From syncope +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.kɔ.pe/
• Homophones: syncopai, syncopé, syncopée, syncopées, syncopés, syncopez

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Verb

syncoper

1. to syncopate

Conjugation

Conjugation of syncoper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	syncoper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	syncopant /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		syncopé /sɛ̃.kɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	syncope /sɛ̃.kɔp/	syncopes /sɛ̃.kɔp/	syncope /sɛ̃.kɔp/	syncopons /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɔ̃/	syncopez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pe/	syncopent /sɛ̃.kɔp/
	imperfect	syncopais /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɛ/	syncopais /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɛ/	syncopait /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɛ/	syncopions /sɛ̃.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	syncopiez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pje/	syncopaient /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	syncopai /sɛ̃.kɔ.pe/	syncopas /sɛ̃.kɔ.pa/	syncopa /sɛ̃.kɔ.pa/	syncopâmes /sɛ̃.kɔ.pam/	syncopâtes /sɛ̃.kɔ.pat/	syncopèrent /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	syncoperai /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁe/	syncoperas /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁa/	syncopera /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁa/	syncoperons /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁɔ̃/	syncoperez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁe/	syncoperont /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	syncoperais /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁɛ/	syncoperais /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁɛ/	syncoperait /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁɛ/	syncoperions /sɛ̃.kɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	syncoperiez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pə.ʁje/	syncoperaient /sɛ̃.kɔ.pʁɛ/
(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	syncope /sɛ̃.kɔp/	syncopes /sɛ̃.kɔp/	syncope /sɛ̃.kɔp/	syncopions /sɛ̃.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	syncopiez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pje/	syncopent /sɛ̃.kɔp/
	imperfect2	syncopasse /sɛ̃.kɔ.pas/	syncopasses /sɛ̃.kɔ.pas/	syncopât /sɛ̃.kɔ.pa/	syncopassions /sɛ̃.kɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	syncopassiez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pa.sje/	syncopassent /sɛ̃.kɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	syncope /sɛ̃.kɔp/	—	syncopons /sɛ̃.kɔ.pɔ̃/	syncopez /sɛ̃.kɔ.pe/	—
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

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