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chipoter
chipoter
French
Verb
chipoter
- (transitive, intransitive) to nibble
- (transitive, intransitive) to quibble, haggle
Conjugation
Conjugation of chipoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | chipoter | avoir chipoté | |||||
| gerund | en chipotant | en ayant chipoté | |||||
| present participle | chipotant /ʃi.pɔ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | chipoté /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotes /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotons /ʃi.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
chipotez /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
chipotent /ʃi.pɔt/ |
| imperfect | chipotais /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
chipotais /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
chipotait /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
chipotions /ʃi.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
chipotiez /ʃi.pɔ.tje/ |
chipotaient /ʃi.pɔ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | chipotai /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
chipotas /ʃi.pɔ.ta/ |
chipota /ʃi.pɔ.ta/ |
chipotâmes /ʃi.pɔ.tam/ |
chipotâtes /ʃi.pɔ.tat/ |
chipotèrent /ʃi.pɔ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | chipoterai /ʃi.pɔ.tʁe/ |
chipoteras /ʃi.pɔ.tʁa/ |
chipotera /ʃi.pɔ.tʁa/ |
chipoterons /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
chipoterez /ʃi.pɔ.tʁe/ |
chipoteront /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | chipoterais /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
chipoterais /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
chipoterait /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
chipoterions /ʃi.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chipoteriez /ʃi.pɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
chipoteraient /ʃi.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotes /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
chipotions /ʃi.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
chipotiez /ʃi.pɔ.tje/ |
chipotent /ʃi.pɔt/ |
| imperfect1 |
chipotasse /ʃi.pɔ.tas/ |
chipotasses /ʃi.pɔ.tas/ |
chipotât /ʃi.pɔ.ta/ |
chipotassions /ʃi.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
chipotassiez /ʃi.pɔ.ta.sje/ |
chipotassent /ʃi.pɔ.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | chipote /ʃi.pɔt/ |
— | chipotons /ʃi.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
chipotez /ʃi.pɔ.te/ |
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