riper

English

Adjective

riper

1. comparative form of ripe: more ripe

Anagrams

• Perri, Prier, irrep, prier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French riper, ripper, from Old French riper, of Germanic origin, ultimately from Frankish *wrīban (“to rub”). Compare Dutch wrijven, German reiben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.pe/

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Verb

riper

1. (intransitive) to slip
2. (intransitive) to go away, to take off
3. (transitive) to scrape

Conjugation

Conjugation of riper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	riper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ripant /ʁi.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ripé /ʁi.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ripe /ʁip/	ripes /ʁip/	ripe /ʁip/	ripons /ʁi.pɔ̃/	ripez /ʁi.pe/	ripent /ʁip/
	imperfect	ripais /ʁi.pɛ/	ripais /ʁi.pɛ/	ripait /ʁi.pɛ/	ripions /ʁi.pjɔ̃/	ripiez /ʁi.pje/	ripaient /ʁi.pɛ/
	past historic2	ripai /ʁi.pe/	ripas /ʁi.pa/	ripa /ʁi.pa/	ripâmes /ʁi.pam/	ripâtes /ʁi.pat/	ripèrent /ʁi.pɛʁ/
	future	riperai /ʁi.pʁe/	riperas /ʁi.pʁa/	ripera /ʁi.pʁa/	riperons /ʁi.pʁɔ̃/	riperez /ʁi.pʁe/	riperont /ʁi.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	riperais /ʁi.pʁɛ/	riperais /ʁi.pʁɛ/	riperait /ʁi.pʁɛ/	riperions /ʁi.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	riperiez /ʁi.pə.ʁje/	riperaient /ʁi.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	ripe /ʁip/	ripes /ʁip/	ripe /ʁip/	ripions /ʁi.pjɔ̃/	ripiez /ʁi.pje/	ripent /ʁip/
	imperfect2	ripasse /ʁi.pas/	ripasses /ʁi.pas/	ripât /ʁi.pa/	ripassions /ʁi.pa.sjɔ̃/	ripassiez /ʁi.pa.sje/	ripassent /ʁi.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ripe /ʁip/	—	ripons /ʁi.pɔ̃/	ripez /ʁi.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

• “riper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• périr, prier

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

riper m or f

1. indefinite plural of ripe

Verb

riper

1. present tense of ripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

riper f

1. indefinite plural of ripe