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): /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/

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Verb

esquinter

1. 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.

Conjugation

Conjugation of esquinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	esquinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	esquintant /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		esquinté /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	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	esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/	esquintes /ɛs.kɛ̃t/	esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/	esquintions /ɛs.kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	esquintiez /ɛs.kɛ̃.tje/	esquintent /ɛs.kɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	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	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	esquinte /ɛs.kɛ̃t/	—	esquintons /ɛs.kɛ̃.tɔ̃/	esquintez /ɛs.kɛ̃.te/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• trinquées