attraper
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]attraper
- to trap (to capture in a trap)
- Synonym: piéger
- Le renard s’est enfin laissé attraper au piège.
- The fox finally got caught in the trap.
- to catch (e.g. a ball)
- (figurative) to catch (a cold etc.)
- Synonym: contracter
- attraper un rhume, une fièvre ― to catch a cold, a fever
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of attraper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | attraper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | attrapant /a.tʁa.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | attrapé /a.tʁa.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | attrape /a.tʁap/ |
attrapes /a.tʁap/ |
attrape /a.tʁap/ |
attrapons /a.tʁa.pɔ̃/ |
attrapez /a.tʁa.pe/ |
attrapent /a.tʁap/ |
| imperfect | attrapais /a.tʁa.pɛ/ |
attrapais /a.tʁa.pɛ/ |
attrapait /a.tʁa.pɛ/ |
attrapions /a.tʁa.pjɔ̃/ |
attrapiez /a.tʁa.pje/ |
attrapaient /a.tʁa.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | attrapai /a.tʁa.pe/ |
attrapas /a.tʁa.pa/ |
attrapa /a.tʁa.pa/ |
attrapâmes /a.tʁa.pam/ |
attrapâtes /a.tʁa.pat/ |
attrapèrent /a.tʁa.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | attraperai /a.tʁa.pʁe/ |
attraperas /a.tʁa.pʁa/ |
attrapera /a.tʁa.pʁa/ |
attraperons /a.tʁa.pʁɔ̃/ |
attraperez /a.tʁa.pʁe/ |
attraperont /a.tʁa.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | attraperais /a.tʁa.pʁɛ/ |
attraperais /a.tʁa.pʁɛ/ |
attraperait /a.tʁa.pʁɛ/ |
attraperions /a.tʁa.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attraperiez /a.tʁa.pə.ʁje/ |
attraperaient /a.tʁa.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 | attrape /a.tʁap/ |
attrapes /a.tʁap/ |
attrape /a.tʁap/ |
attrapions /a.tʁa.pjɔ̃/ |
attrapiez /a.tʁa.pje/ |
attrapent /a.tʁap/ |
| imperfect2 | attrapasse /a.tʁa.pas/ |
attrapasses /a.tʁa.pas/ |
attrapât /a.tʁa.pa/ |
attrapassions /a.tʁa.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
attrapassiez /a.tʁa.pa.sje/ |
attrapassent /a.tʁa.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attrape /a.tʁap/ |
— | attrapons /a.tʁa.pɔ̃/ |
attrapez /a.tʁa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “attraper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.