disculper

French

Etymology

From Latin disculpāre, from dis- + culpa (“fault, blame”). Compare Spanish and Catalan disculpar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.kyl.pe/

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Verb

disculper

1. (transitive) to exonerate

Conjugation

Conjugation of disculper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disculper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	disculpant /dis.kyl.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disculpé /dis.kyl.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disculpe /dis.kylp/	disculpes /dis.kylp/	disculpe /dis.kylp/	disculpons /dis.kyl.pɔ̃/	disculpez /dis.kyl.pe/	disculpent /dis.kylp/
	imperfect	disculpais /dis.kyl.pɛ/	disculpais /dis.kyl.pɛ/	disculpait /dis.kyl.pɛ/	disculpions /dis.kyl.pjɔ̃/	disculpiez /dis.kyl.pje/	disculpaient /dis.kyl.pɛ/
	past historic2	disculpai /dis.kyl.pe/	disculpas /dis.kyl.pa/	disculpa /dis.kyl.pa/	disculpâmes /dis.kyl.pam/	disculpâtes /dis.kyl.pat/	disculpèrent /dis.kyl.pɛʁ/
	future	disculperai /dis.kyl.pə.ʁe/	disculperas /dis.kyl.pə.ʁa/	disculpera /dis.kyl.pə.ʁa/	disculperons /dis.kyl.pə.ʁɔ̃/	disculperez /dis.kyl.pə.ʁe/	disculperont /dis.kyl.pə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disculperais /dis.kyl.pə.ʁɛ/	disculperais /dis.kyl.pə.ʁɛ/	disculperait /dis.kyl.pə.ʁɛ/	disculperions /dis.kyl.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	disculperiez /dis.kyl.pə.ʁje/	disculperaient /dis.kyl.pə.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	disculpe /dis.kylp/	disculpes /dis.kylp/	disculpe /dis.kylp/	disculpions /dis.kyl.pjɔ̃/	disculpiez /dis.kyl.pje/	disculpent /dis.kylp/
	imperfect2	disculpasse /dis.kyl.pas/	disculpasses /dis.kyl.pas/	disculpât /dis.kyl.pa/	disculpassions /dis.kyl.pa.sjɔ̃/	disculpassiez /dis.kyl.pa.sje/	disculpassent /dis.kyl.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disculpe /dis.kylp/	—	disculpons /dis.kyl.pɔ̃/	disculpez /dis.kyl.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

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