trépider

See also: trepider

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trepidāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.pi.de/

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Verb

trépider

1. (intransitive) to vibrate
2. (intransitive) to shudder
3. (intransitive) to throb

Conjugation

Conjugation of trépider (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trépider
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trépidant /tʁe.pi.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trépidé /tʁe.pi.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trépide /tʁe.pid/	trépides /tʁe.pid/	trépide /tʁe.pid/	trépidons /tʁe.pi.dɔ̃/	trépidez /tʁe.pi.de/	trépident /tʁe.pid/
	imperfect	trépidais /tʁe.pi.dɛ/	trépidais /tʁe.pi.dɛ/	trépidait /tʁe.pi.dɛ/	trépidions /tʁe.pi.djɔ̃/	trépidiez /tʁe.pi.dje/	trépidaient /tʁe.pi.dɛ/
	past historic2	trépidai /tʁe.pi.de/	trépidas /tʁe.pi.da/	trépida /tʁe.pi.da/	trépidâmes /tʁe.pi.dam/	trépidâtes /tʁe.pi.dat/	trépidèrent /tʁe.pi.dɛʁ/
	future	trépiderai /tʁe.pi.dʁe/	trépideras /tʁe.pi.dʁa/	trépidera /tʁe.pi.dʁa/	trépiderons /tʁe.pi.dʁɔ̃/	trépiderez /tʁe.pi.dʁe/	trépideront /tʁe.pi.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trépiderais /tʁe.pi.dʁɛ/	trépiderais /tʁe.pi.dʁɛ/	trépiderait /tʁe.pi.dʁɛ/	trépiderions /tʁe.pi.də.ʁjɔ̃/	trépideriez /tʁe.pi.də.ʁje/	trépideraient /tʁe.pi.dʁɛ/
(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	trépide /tʁe.pid/	trépides /tʁe.pid/	trépide /tʁe.pid/	trépidions /tʁe.pi.djɔ̃/	trépidiez /tʁe.pi.dje/	trépident /tʁe.pid/
	imperfect2	trépidasse /tʁe.pi.das/	trépidasses /tʁe.pi.das/	trépidât /tʁe.pi.da/	trépidassions /tʁe.pi.da.sjɔ̃/	trépidassiez /tʁe.pi.da.sje/	trépidassent /tʁe.pi.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trépide /tʁe.pid/	—	trépidons /tʁe.pi.dɔ̃/	trépidez /tʁe.pi.de/	—
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

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