palper

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palpāre, palpō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.pe/

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Verb

palper

1. to palpate

Conjugation

Conjugation of palper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	palper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	palpant /pal.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		palpé /pal.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	palpe /palp/	palpes /palp/	palpe /palp/	palpons /pal.pɔ̃/	palpez /pal.pe/	palpent /palp/
	imperfect	palpais /pal.pɛ/	palpais /pal.pɛ/	palpait /pal.pɛ/	palpions /pal.pjɔ̃/	palpiez /pal.pje/	palpaient /pal.pɛ/
	past historic2	palpai /pal.pe/	palpas /pal.pa/	palpa /pal.pa/	palpâmes /pal.pam/	palpâtes /pal.pat/	palpèrent /pal.pɛʁ/
	future	palperai /pal.pə.ʁe/	palperas /pal.pə.ʁa/	palpera /pal.pə.ʁa/	palperons /pal.pə.ʁɔ̃/	palperez /pal.pə.ʁe/	palperont /pal.pə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	palperais /pal.pə.ʁɛ/	palperais /pal.pə.ʁɛ/	palperait /pal.pə.ʁɛ/	palperions /pal.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	palperiez /pal.pə.ʁje/	palperaient /pal.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	palpe /palp/	palpes /palp/	palpe /palp/	palpions /pal.pjɔ̃/	palpiez /pal.pje/	palpent /palp/
	imperfect2	palpasse /pal.pas/	palpasses /pal.pas/	palpât /pal.pa/	palpassions /pal.pa.sjɔ̃/	palpassiez /pal.pa.sje/	palpassent /pal.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	palpe /palp/	—	palpons /pal.pɔ̃/	palpez /pal.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

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

Anagrams

• rappel

Latin

Verb

palper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of palpō