laper

See also: lapër

French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, from German lappen, from Old High German gilepfen, from Proto-West Germanic *galappjan, from Proto-Germanic *lapōną, *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to lap, lick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.pe/

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Verb

laper

1. (transitive) to lap (a liquid)

Conjugation

Conjugation of laper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	laper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lapant /la.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lapé /la.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lape /lap/	lapes /lap/	lape /lap/	lapons /la.pɔ̃/	lapez /la.pe/	lapent /lap/
	imperfect	lapais /la.pɛ/	lapais /la.pɛ/	lapait /la.pɛ/	lapions /la.pjɔ̃/	lapiez /la.pje/	lapaient /la.pɛ/
	past historic2	lapai /la.pe/	lapas /la.pa/	lapa /la.pa/	lapâmes /la.pam/	lapâtes /la.pat/	lapèrent /la.pɛʁ/
	future	laperai /la.pʁe/	laperas /la.pʁa/	lapera /la.pʁa/	laperons /la.pʁɔ̃/	laperez /la.pʁe/	laperont /la.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	laperais /la.pʁɛ/	laperais /la.pʁɛ/	laperait /la.pʁɛ/	laperions /la.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	laperiez /la.pə.ʁje/	laperaient /la.pʁɛ/
(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	lape /lap/	lapes /lap/	lape /lap/	lapions /la.pjɔ̃/	lapiez /la.pje/	lapent /lap/
	imperfect2	lapasse /la.pas/	lapasses /la.pas/	lapât /la.pa/	lapassions /la.pa.sjɔ̃/	lapassiez /la.pa.sje/	lapassent /la.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lape /lap/	—	lapons /la.pɔ̃/	lapez /la.pe/	—
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

• “laper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Brachet, A. (1873) “laper”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.

Anagrams

• parle, parlé