trépigner
French edit
Etymology edit
From a suffixed form of Old French treper. Cognate with English trape (“to run about idly”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
trépigner
- (intransitive) to stamp or shuffle one's feet (usually of horses or humans)
- Synonym: piétiner
- (intransitive, figurative) to wait nervously or angrily
- 2004 June 1, Jérôme Dupuis, “Comment L'usage du monde est devenu un livre culte”, in L'Express[1]:
- C’est justement l’ami Thierry et son épouse Floristella qui ont commandé le champagne, au bar de l’Hôtel de Hollande, rue Cadet, à Paris. Eliane, l’épouse de Nicolas Bouvier, trépigne à leurs côtés.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (transitive) to trample
- (transitive, figurative) to severely criticize, to speak badly of
- (transitive, slang, dated) to beat up
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of trépigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trépigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trépignant /tʁe.pi.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trépigné /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ |
trépignes /tʁe.piɲ/ |
trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ |
trépignons /tʁe.pi.ɲɔ̃/ |
trépignez /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ |
trépignent /tʁe.piɲ/ |
| imperfect | trépignais /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ |
trépignais /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ |
trépignait /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ |
trépignions /tʁe.pi.ɲjɔ̃/ |
trépigniez /tʁe.pi.ɲje/ |
trépignaient /tʁe.pi.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trépignai /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ |
trépignas /tʁe.pi.ɲa/ |
trépigna /tʁe.pi.ɲa/ |
trépignâmes /tʁe.pi.ɲam/ |
trépignâtes /tʁe.pi.ɲat/ |
trépignèrent /tʁe.pi.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | trépignerai /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁe/ |
trépigneras /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁa/ |
trépignera /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁa/ |
trépignerons /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
trépignerez /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁe/ |
trépigneront /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trépignerais /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
trépignerais /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
trépignerait /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
trépignerions /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trépigneriez /tʁe.pi.ɲə.ʁje/ |
trépigneraient /tʁe.pi.ɲə.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 | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ |
trépignes /tʁe.piɲ/ |
trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ |
trépignions /tʁe.pi.ɲjɔ̃/ |
trépigniez /tʁe.pi.ɲje/ |
trépignent /tʁe.piɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | trépignasse /tʁe.pi.ɲas/ |
trépignasses /tʁe.pi.ɲas/ |
trépignât /tʁe.pi.ɲa/ |
trépignassions /tʁe.pi.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
trépignassiez /tʁe.pi.ɲa.sje/ |
trépignassent /tʁe.pi.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trépigne /tʁe.piɲ/ |
— | trépignons /tʁe.pi.ɲɔ̃/ |
trépignez /tʁe.pi.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “trépigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.