polycopier

French

Etymology

From poly- +‎ copier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.li.kɔ.pje/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

• Homophones: polycopiai, polycopié, polycopiée, polycopiées, polycopiés, polycopiez

Verb

polycopier

1. (transitive) to duplicate (documents)

Conjugation

Conjugation of polycopier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	polycopier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	polycopiant /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		polycopié /pɔ.li.kɔ.pje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	polycopie /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	polycopies /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	polycopie /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	polycopions /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	polycopiez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pje/	polycopient /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/
	imperfect	polycopiais /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɛ/	polycopiais /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɛ/	polycopiait /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɛ/	polycopiions /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	polycopiiez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.je/	polycopiaient /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɛ/
	past historic2	polycopiai /pɔ.li.kɔ.pje/	polycopias /pɔ.li.kɔ.pja/	polycopia /pɔ.li.kɔ.pja/	polycopiâmes /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjam/	polycopiâtes /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjat/	polycopièrent /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɛʁ/
	future	polycopierai /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁe/	polycopieras /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁa/	polycopiera /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁa/	polycopierons /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/	polycopierez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁe/	polycopieront /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	polycopierais /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	polycopierais /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	polycopierait /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	polycopierions /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	polycopieriez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.ʁje/	polycopieraient /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.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	polycopie /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	polycopies /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	polycopie /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	polycopiions /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	polycopiiez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi.je/	polycopient /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/
	imperfect2	polycopiasse /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjas/	polycopiasses /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjas/	polycopiât /pɔ.li.kɔ.pja/	polycopiassions /pɔ.li.kɔ.pja.sjɔ̃/	polycopiassiez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pja.sje/	polycopiassent /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	polycopie /pɔ.li.kɔ.pi/	—	polycopions /pɔ.li.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	polycopiez /pɔ.li.kɔ.pje/	—
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

• polycopiage

Further reading

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