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