diaprer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French diaspre + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]diaprer
- (transitive) to variegate, diaper; to iridize
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier jour d'un condamné, section II:
- Je demeurais immobile, l’esprit à demi endormi, la bouche souriante, l’œil fixé sur cette douce réverbération dorée qui diaprait le plafond.
I stayed motionless, my spirit half-asleep, my mouth smiling, my eye fixed on that soft, golden echo sparkling on the ceiling.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of diaprer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | diaprer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | diaprant /dja.pʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | diapré /dja.pʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | diapre /djapʁ/ |
diapres /djapʁ/ |
diapre /djapʁ/ |
diaprons /dja.pʁɔ̃/ |
diaprez /dja.pʁe/ |
diaprent /djapʁ/ |
| imperfect | diaprais /dja.pʁɛ/ |
diaprais /dja.pʁɛ/ |
diaprait /dja.pʁɛ/ |
diaprions /dja.pʁi.jɔ̃/ |
diapriez /dja.pʁi.je/ |
diapraient /dja.pʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | diaprai /dja.pʁe/ |
diapras /dja.pʁa/ |
diapra /dja.pʁa/ |
diaprâmes /dja.pʁam/ |
diaprâtes /dja.pʁat/ |
diaprèrent /dja.pʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | diaprerai /dja.pʁə.ʁe/ |
diapreras /dja.pʁə.ʁa/ |
diaprera /dja.pʁə.ʁa/ |
diaprerons /dja.pʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
diaprerez /dja.pʁə.ʁe/ |
diapreront /dja.pʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | diaprerais /dja.pʁə.ʁɛ/ |
diaprerais /dja.pʁə.ʁɛ/ |
diaprerait /dja.pʁə.ʁɛ/ |
diaprerions /dja.pʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
diapreriez /dja.pʁə.ʁje/ |
diapreraient /dja.pʁə.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 | diapre /djapʁ/ |
diapres /djapʁ/ |
diapre /djapʁ/ |
diaprions /dja.pʁi.jɔ̃/ |
diapriez /dja.pʁi.je/ |
diaprent /djapʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | diaprasse /dja.pʁas/ |
diaprasses /dja.pʁas/ |
diaprât /dja.pʁa/ |
diaprassions /dja.pʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
diaprassiez /dja.pʁa.sje/ |
diaprassent /dja.pʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | diapre /djapʁ/ |
— | diaprons /dja.pʁɔ̃/ |
diaprez /dja.pʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “diaprer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.