trépigner

French

Etymology

From a suffixed form of Old French treper. Cognate with English trape (“to run about idly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.pi.ɲe/

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Verb

trépigner

1. (intransitive) to stamp or shuffle one's feet (usually of horses or humans)

   Synonym: piétiner

2. (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.

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3. (transitive) to trample
4. (transitive, figurative) to severely criticize, to speak badly of
5. (transitive, slang, dated) to beat up

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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