croupir

French

Etymology

From croupe +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.piʁ/

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Verb

croupir

1. (of water) to stagnate
2. to wallow (remain miserable)

   croupir dans la misère ― to wallow in misery

3. to rot (e.g. in prison)

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of croupir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	croupir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	croupissant /kʁu.pi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		croupi /kʁu.pi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	croupis /kʁu.pi/	croupis /kʁu.pi/	croupit /kʁu.pi/	croupissons /kʁu.pi.sɔ̃/	croupissez /kʁu.pi.se/	croupissent /kʁu.pis/
	imperfect	croupissais /kʁu.pi.sɛ/	croupissais /kʁu.pi.sɛ/	croupissait /kʁu.pi.sɛ/	croupissions /kʁu.pi.sjɔ̃/	croupissiez /kʁu.pi.sje/	croupissaient /kʁu.pi.sɛ/
	past historic2	croupis /kʁu.pi/	croupis /kʁu.pi/	croupit /kʁu.pi/	croupîmes /kʁu.pim/	croupîtes /kʁu.pit/	croupirent /kʁu.piʁ/
	future	croupirai /kʁu.pi.ʁe/	croupiras /kʁu.pi.ʁa/	croupira /kʁu.pi.ʁa/	croupirons /kʁu.pi.ʁɔ̃/	croupirez /kʁu.pi.ʁe/	croupiront /kʁu.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	croupirais /kʁu.pi.ʁɛ/	croupirais /kʁu.pi.ʁɛ/	croupirait /kʁu.pi.ʁɛ/	croupirions /kʁu.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	croupiriez /kʁu.pi.ʁje/	croupiraient /kʁu.pi.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	croupisse /kʁu.pis/	croupisses /kʁu.pis/	croupisse /kʁu.pis/	croupissions /kʁu.pi.sjɔ̃/	croupissiez /kʁu.pi.sje/	croupissent /kʁu.pis/
	imperfect2	croupisse /kʁu.pis/	croupisses /kʁu.pis/	croupît /kʁu.pi/	croupissions /kʁu.pi.sjɔ̃/	croupissiez /kʁu.pi.sje/	croupissent /kʁu.pis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	croupis /kʁu.pi/	—	croupissons /kʁu.pi.sɔ̃/	croupissez /kʁu.pi.se/	—
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).

Related terms

• accroupir
• croupi
• croupissement

See also

• stagner