saloper

French

Etymology

From salope +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.lɔ.pe/
• Rhymes: -e

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Verb

saloper

1. (informal) to bugger up (do something badly)
2. (informal, vulgar) to muck up (make dirty)

Conjugation

Conjugation of saloper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saloper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	salopant /sa.lɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		salopé /sa.lɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	salope /sa.lɔp/	salopes /sa.lɔp/	salope /sa.lɔp/	salopons /sa.lɔ.pɔ̃/	salopez /sa.lɔ.pe/	salopent /sa.lɔp/
	imperfect	salopais /sa.lɔ.pɛ/	salopais /sa.lɔ.pɛ/	salopait /sa.lɔ.pɛ/	salopions /sa.lɔ.pjɔ̃/	salopiez /sa.lɔ.pje/	salopaient /sa.lɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	salopai /sa.lɔ.pe/	salopas /sa.lɔ.pa/	salopa /sa.lɔ.pa/	salopâmes /sa.lɔ.pam/	salopâtes /sa.lɔ.pat/	salopèrent /sa.lɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	saloperai /sa.lɔ.pʁe/	saloperas /sa.lɔ.pʁa/	salopera /sa.lɔ.pʁa/	saloperons /sa.lɔ.pʁɔ̃/	saloperez /sa.lɔ.pʁe/	saloperont /sa.lɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saloperais /sa.lɔ.pʁɛ/	saloperais /sa.lɔ.pʁɛ/	saloperait /sa.lɔ.pʁɛ/	saloperions /sa.lɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	saloperiez /sa.lɔ.pə.ʁje/	saloperaient /sa.lɔ.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	salope /sa.lɔp/	salopes /sa.lɔp/	salope /sa.lɔp/	salopions /sa.lɔ.pjɔ̃/	salopiez /sa.lɔ.pje/	salopent /sa.lɔp/
	imperfect2	salopasse /sa.lɔ.pas/	salopasses /sa.lɔ.pas/	salopât /sa.lɔ.pa/	salopassions /sa.lɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	salopassiez /sa.lɔ.pa.sje/	salopassent /sa.lɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	salope /sa.lɔp/	—	salopons /sa.lɔ.pɔ̃/	salopez /sa.lɔ.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: 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

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

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