trépaner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁe.pa.ne/
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Verb
trépaner
- (transitive, surgery) to trepan
- 2006, Virginie Despentes, “Salut les filles”, in King Kong Théorie [King Kong Theory], Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 142:
- Il y a des hommes plutôt faits pour la cueillette, la décoration d'intérieur et les enfants au parc, et des femmes bâties pour aller trépaner le mammouth, faire du bruit et des embuscades.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of trépaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trépaner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trépanant /tʁe.pa.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trépané /tʁe.pa.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trépane /tʁe.pan/ |
trépanes /tʁe.pan/ |
trépane /tʁe.pan/ |
trépanons /tʁe.pa.nɔ̃/ |
trépanez /tʁe.pa.ne/ |
trépanent /tʁe.pan/ |
| imperfect | trépanais /tʁe.pa.nɛ/ |
trépanais /tʁe.pa.nɛ/ |
trépanait /tʁe.pa.nɛ/ |
trépanions /tʁe.pa.njɔ̃/ |
trépaniez /tʁe.pa.nje/ |
trépanaient /tʁe.pa.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trépanai /tʁe.pa.ne/ |
trépanas /tʁe.pa.na/ |
trépana /tʁe.pa.na/ |
trépanâmes /tʁe.pa.nam/ |
trépanâtes /tʁe.pa.nat/ |
trépanèrent /tʁe.pa.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | trépanerai /tʁe.pan.ʁe/ |
trépaneras /tʁe.pan.ʁa/ |
trépanera /tʁe.pan.ʁa/ |
trépanerons /tʁe.pan.ʁɔ̃/ |
trépanerez /tʁe.pan.ʁe/ |
trépaneront /tʁe.pan.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trépanerais /tʁe.pan.ʁɛ/ |
trépanerais /tʁe.pan.ʁɛ/ |
trépanerait /tʁe.pan.ʁɛ/ |
trépanerions /tʁe.pa.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trépaneriez /tʁe.pa.nə.ʁje/ |
trépaneraient /tʁe.pan.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 | trépane /tʁe.pan/ |
trépanes /tʁe.pan/ |
trépane /tʁe.pan/ |
trépanions /tʁe.pa.njɔ̃/ |
trépaniez /tʁe.pa.nje/ |
trépanent /tʁe.pan/ |
| imperfect2 | trépanasse /tʁe.pa.nas/ |
trépanasses /tʁe.pa.nas/ |
trépanât /tʁe.pa.na/ |
trépanassions /tʁe.pa.na.sjɔ̃/ |
trépanassiez /tʁe.pa.na.sje/ |
trépanassent /tʁe.pa.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trépane /tʁe.pan/ |
— | trépanons /tʁe.pa.nɔ̃/ |
trépanez /tʁe.pa.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “trépaner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.