tapiner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.pi.ne/
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Verb
tapiner
- (slang) to go on the game (to work as a prostitute)
- Synonyms: racoler, faire le tapin, faire le trottoir
- (slang, by extension) to work, to hustle
Conjugation
Conjugation of tapiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tapiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tapinant /ta.pi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tapiné /ta.pi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tapine /ta.pin/ |
tapines /ta.pin/ |
tapine /ta.pin/ |
tapinons /ta.pi.nɔ̃/ |
tapinez /ta.pi.ne/ |
tapinent /ta.pin/ |
| imperfect | tapinais /ta.pi.nɛ/ |
tapinais /ta.pi.nɛ/ |
tapinait /ta.pi.nɛ/ |
tapinions /ta.pi.njɔ̃/ |
tapiniez /ta.pi.nje/ |
tapinaient /ta.pi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tapinai /ta.pi.ne/ |
tapinas /ta.pi.na/ |
tapina /ta.pi.na/ |
tapinâmes /ta.pi.nam/ |
tapinâtes /ta.pi.nat/ |
tapinèrent /ta.pi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | tapinerai /ta.pin.ʁe/ |
tapineras /ta.pin.ʁa/ |
tapinera /ta.pin.ʁa/ |
tapinerons /ta.pin.ʁɔ̃/ |
tapinerez /ta.pin.ʁe/ |
tapineront /ta.pin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tapinerais /ta.pin.ʁɛ/ |
tapinerais /ta.pin.ʁɛ/ |
tapinerait /ta.pin.ʁɛ/ |
tapinerions /ta.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tapineriez /ta.pi.nə.ʁje/ |
tapineraient /ta.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 | tapine /ta.pin/ |
tapines /ta.pin/ |
tapine /ta.pin/ |
tapinions /ta.pi.njɔ̃/ |
tapiniez /ta.pi.nje/ |
tapinent /ta.pin/ |
| imperfect2 | tapinasse /ta.pi.nas/ |
tapinasses /ta.pi.nas/ |
tapinât /ta.pi.na/ |
tapinassions /ta.pi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
tapinassiez /ta.pi.na.sje/ |
tapinassent /ta.pi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tapine /ta.pin/ |
— | tapinons /ta.pi.nɔ̃/ |
tapinez /ta.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tapiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.