tapiner

French

Etymology

From tapin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.pi.ne/

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Verb

tapiner

1. (slang) to go on the game (to work as a prostitute)

   Synonyms: racoler, faire le tapin, faire le trottoir

2. (slang, by extension) to work, to hustle

Conjugation

Conjugation of tapiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tapiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tapinant /ta.pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tapiné /ta.pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tapine /ta.pin/	tapines /ta.pin/	tapine /ta.pin/	tapinons /ta.pi.nɔ̃/	tapinez /ta.pi.ne/	tapinent /ta.pin/
	imperfect	tapinais /ta.pi.nɛ/	tapinais /ta.pi.nɛ/	tapinait /ta.pi.nɛ/	tapinions /ta.pi.njɔ̃/	tapiniez /ta.pi.nje/	tapinaient /ta.pi.nɛ/
	past historic2	tapinai /ta.pi.ne/	tapinas /ta.pi.na/	tapina /ta.pi.na/	tapinâmes /ta.pi.nam/	tapinâtes /ta.pi.nat/	tapinèrent /ta.pi.nɛʁ/
	future	tapinerai /ta.pin.ʁe/	tapineras /ta.pin.ʁa/	tapinera /ta.pin.ʁa/	tapinerons /ta.pin.ʁɔ̃/	tapinerez /ta.pin.ʁe/	tapineront /ta.pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tapinerais /ta.pin.ʁɛ/	tapinerais /ta.pin.ʁɛ/	tapinerait /ta.pin.ʁɛ/	tapinerions /ta.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	tapineriez /ta.pi.nə.ʁje/	tapineraient /ta.pin.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	tapine /ta.pin/	tapines /ta.pin/	tapine /ta.pin/	tapinions /ta.pi.njɔ̃/	tapiniez /ta.pi.nje/	tapinent /ta.pin/
	imperfect2	tapinasse /ta.pi.nas/	tapinasses /ta.pi.nas/	tapinât /ta.pi.na/	tapinassions /ta.pi.na.sjɔ̃/	tapinassiez /ta.pi.na.sje/	tapinassent /ta.pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tapine /ta.pin/	—	tapinons /ta.pi.nɔ̃/	tapinez /ta.pi.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• tapinage

Further reading

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