pépier

French

Etymology

Ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Latin pīpiō, English peep.

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Pronunciation

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Verb

pépier

1. to chirp (make a short sound of a bird)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pépier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pépier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pépiant /pe.pjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pépié /pe.pje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pépie /pe.pi/	pépies /pe.pi/	pépie /pe.pi/	pépions /pe.pjɔ̃/	pépiez /pe.pje/	pépient /pe.pi/
	imperfect	pépiais /pe.pjɛ/	pépiais /pe.pjɛ/	pépiait /pe.pjɛ/	pépiions /pe.pi.jɔ̃/	pépiiez /pe.pi.je/	pépiaient /pe.pjɛ/
	past historic2	pépiai /pe.pje/	pépias /pe.pja/	pépia /pe.pja/	pépiâmes /pe.pjam/	pépiâtes /pe.pjat/	pépièrent /pe.pjɛʁ/
	future	pépierai /pe.pi.ʁe/	pépieras /pe.pi.ʁa/	pépiera /pe.pi.ʁa/	pépierons /pe.pi.ʁɔ̃/	pépierez /pe.pi.ʁe/	pépieront /pe.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pépierais /pe.pi.ʁɛ/	pépierais /pe.pi.ʁɛ/	pépierait /pe.pi.ʁɛ/	pépierions /pe.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	pépieriez /pe.pi.ʁje/	pépieraient /pe.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	pépie /pe.pi/	pépies /pe.pi/	pépie /pe.pi/	pépiions /pe.pi.jɔ̃/	pépiiez /pe.pi.je/	pépient /pe.pi/
	imperfect2	pépiasse /pe.pjas/	pépiasses /pe.pjas/	pépiât /pe.pja/	pépiassions /pe.pja.sjɔ̃/	pépiassiez /pe.pja.sje/	pépiassent /pe.pjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pépie /pe.pi/	—	pépions /pe.pjɔ̃/	pépiez /pe.pje/	—
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

• pépiement

Further reading

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