croupir

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French

Etymology

From croupe +‎ -ir [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁu.piʁ/
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Verb

croupir

  1. (of water) to stagnate
  2. to wallow (remain miserable)
    croupir dans la misèreto wallow in misery
  3. to rot (e.g. in prison)

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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