clopiner

French

Etymology

From Old French clop (“that hobbles; hobbling”), from Late Latin *cloppus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɔ.pi.ne/

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• Homophones: clopinai, clopiné, clopinez

Verb

clopiner

1. to limp; to hobble; to halt

   Synonym: boitiller

Conjugation

Conjugation of clopiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	clopiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	clopinant /klɔ.pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		clopiné /klɔ.pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	clopine /klɔ.pin/	clopines /klɔ.pin/	clopine /klɔ.pin/	clopinons /klɔ.pi.nɔ̃/	clopinez /klɔ.pi.ne/	clopinent /klɔ.pin/
	imperfect	clopinais /klɔ.pi.nɛ/	clopinais /klɔ.pi.nɛ/	clopinait /klɔ.pi.nɛ/	clopinions /klɔ.pi.njɔ̃/	clopiniez /klɔ.pi.nje/	clopinaient /klɔ.pi.nɛ/
	past historic2	clopinai /klɔ.pi.ne/	clopinas /klɔ.pi.na/	clopina /klɔ.pi.na/	clopinâmes /klɔ.pi.nam/	clopinâtes /klɔ.pi.nat/	clopinèrent /klɔ.pi.nɛʁ/
	future	clopinerai /klɔ.pin.ʁe/	clopineras /klɔ.pin.ʁa/	clopinera /klɔ.pin.ʁa/	clopinerons /klɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/	clopinerez /klɔ.pin.ʁe/	clopineront /klɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	clopinerais /klɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	clopinerais /klɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	clopinerait /klɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	clopinerions /klɔ.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	clopineriez /klɔ.pi.nə.ʁje/	clopineraient /klɔ.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	clopine /klɔ.pin/	clopines /klɔ.pin/	clopine /klɔ.pin/	clopinions /klɔ.pi.njɔ̃/	clopiniez /klɔ.pi.nje/	clopinent /klɔ.pin/
	imperfect2	clopinasse /klɔ.pi.nas/	clopinasses /klɔ.pi.nas/	clopinât /klɔ.pi.na/	clopinassions /klɔ.pi.na.sjɔ̃/	clopinassiez /klɔ.pi.na.sje/	clopinassent /klɔ.pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	clopine /klɔ.pin/	—	clopinons /klɔ.pi.nɔ̃/	clopinez /klɔ.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

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