claper

Catalan

Etymology

From clapa. Compare French clapier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kləˈpe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [klaˈpeɾ]

Noun

claper m (plural clapers)

1. scree

Further reading

• “claper” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “claper”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “claper”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

French

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Verb

claper

1. to clap; to clack (make a clapping noise)
2. (slang) to eat

Conjugation

Conjugation of claper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	claper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	clapant /kla.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		clapé /kla.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	clape /klap/	clapes /klap/	clape /klap/	clapons /kla.pɔ̃/	clapez /kla.pe/	clapent /klap/
	imperfect	clapais /kla.pɛ/	clapais /kla.pɛ/	clapait /kla.pɛ/	clapions /kla.pjɔ̃/	clapiez /kla.pje/	clapaient /kla.pɛ/
	past historic2	clapai /kla.pe/	clapas /kla.pa/	clapa /kla.pa/	clapâmes /kla.pam/	clapâtes /kla.pat/	clapèrent /kla.pɛʁ/
	future	claperai /kla.pʁe/	claperas /kla.pʁa/	clapera /kla.pʁa/	claperons /kla.pʁɔ̃/	claperez /kla.pʁe/	claperont /kla.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	claperais /kla.pʁɛ/	claperais /kla.pʁɛ/	claperait /kla.pʁɛ/	claperions /kla.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	claperiez /kla.pə.ʁje/	claperaient /kla.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	clape /klap/	clapes /klap/	clape /klap/	clapions /kla.pjɔ̃/	clapiez /kla.pje/	clapent /klap/
	imperfect2	clapasse /kla.pas/	clapasses /kla.pas/	clapât /kla.pa/	clapassions /kla.pa.sjɔ̃/	clapassiez /kla.pa.sje/	clapassent /kla.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	clape /klap/	—	clapons /kla.pɔ̃/	clapez /kla.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).

Related terms

• clape

Anagrams

• placer