esquinter
French
Etymology
From Occitan esquintar, from Old Occitan esquintar, probably from Vulgar Latin *exquintare (“divide into five”), from Latin ex- + quintus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛskɛ̃te/
Verb
esquinter
- to damage, ruin, or wear out, especially through use or misuse.
- Ce livre est entièrement esquinté par manque de soin.
- This book is all beat up from carelessness.
- À sauter sur ce fauteuil, tu vas l'esquinter.
- You're going to ruin that armchair by jumping on it.
- Ce livre est entièrement esquinté par manque de soin.
Conjugation
Conjugation of esquinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | esquinter | avoir esquinté | |||||
| gerund | en esquintant | en ayant esquinté | |||||
| present participle | esquintant /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | esquinté /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintes /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
esquintez /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ |
esquintent /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | esquintais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
esquintais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
esquintait /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
esquintions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
esquintiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tje/ |
esquintaient /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | esquintai /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ |
esquintas /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta/ |
esquinta /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta/ |
esquintâmes /ɛs.kɛ̃.tam/ |
esquintâtes /ɛs.kɛ̃.tat/ |
esquintèrent /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | esquinterai /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁe/ |
esquinteras /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁa/ |
esquintera /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁa/ |
esquinterons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
esquinterez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁe/ |
esquinteront /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | esquinterais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
esquinterais /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
esquinterait /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
esquinterions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
esquinteriez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
esquinteraient /ɛs.kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintes /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
esquintions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
esquintiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tje/ |
esquintent /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect1 | esquintasse /ɛs.kɛ̃.tas/ |
esquintasses /ɛs.kɛ̃.tas/ |
esquintât /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta/ |
esquintassions /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
esquintassiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
esquintassent /ɛs.kɛ̃.tas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/ |
— | esquintons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
esquintez /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “esquinter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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