droper

French

Alternative forms

• dropper

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɔ.pe/

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Verb

droper

1. (transitive, golf) to drop (a golf ball in a position other than it has landed)
2. (transitive, colloquial) to drop (to forget, cease talking about)

Conjugation

Conjugation of droper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	droper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dropant /dʁɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dropé /dʁɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	drope /dʁɔp/	dropes /dʁɔp/	drope /dʁɔp/	dropons /dʁɔ.pɔ̃/	dropez /dʁɔ.pe/	dropent /dʁɔp/
	imperfect	dropais /dʁɔ.pɛ/	dropais /dʁɔ.pɛ/	dropait /dʁɔ.pɛ/	dropions /dʁɔ.pjɔ̃/	dropiez /dʁɔ.pje/	dropaient /dʁɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	dropai /dʁɔ.pe/	dropas /dʁɔ.pa/	dropa /dʁɔ.pa/	dropâmes /dʁɔ.pam/	dropâtes /dʁɔ.pat/	dropèrent /dʁɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	droperai /dʁɔ.pʁe/	droperas /dʁɔ.pʁa/	dropera /dʁɔ.pʁa/	droperons /dʁɔ.pʁɔ̃/	droperez /dʁɔ.pʁe/	droperont /dʁɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	droperais /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/	droperais /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/	droperait /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/	droperions /dʁɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	droperiez /dʁɔ.pə.ʁje/	droperaient /dʁɔ.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	drope /dʁɔp/	dropes /dʁɔp/	drope /dʁɔp/	dropions /dʁɔ.pjɔ̃/	dropiez /dʁɔ.pje/	dropent /dʁɔp/
	imperfect2	dropasse /dʁɔ.pas/	dropasses /dʁɔ.pas/	dropât /dʁɔ.pa/	dropassions /dʁɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	dropassiez /dʁɔ.pa.sje/	dropassent /dʁɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	drope /dʁɔp/	—	dropons /dʁɔ.pɔ̃/	dropez /dʁɔ.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

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