roupiller

French

Etymology

Probably from or related to German dialectal ruspen, ruspern (“to snore, groan, grumble, retch”). If so, then cognate with Low German ruspen, Middle Dutch ruyspen, German räuspern (“to clear the throat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.pi.je/

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Verb

roupiller

1. (archaic) to drowse, to doze
2. (colloquial) to (get some) sleep, to kip
   • 1978, Claude Nougaro (lyrics and music), “E Pericoloso Sporgersi”, in Tu Verras:

     Si lassé des voisins qui roupillent / Par la vitre baissée, tu te dessilles / En comptant les points d’or de la nuit / E Pericoloso Sporgersi

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of roupiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	roupiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	roupillant /ʁu.pi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		roupillé /ʁu.pi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	roupille /ʁu.pij/	roupilles /ʁu.pij/	roupille /ʁu.pij/	roupillons /ʁu.pi.jɔ̃/	roupillez /ʁu.pi.je/	roupillent /ʁu.pij/
	imperfect	roupillais /ʁu.pi.jɛ/	roupillais /ʁu.pi.jɛ/	roupillait /ʁu.pi.jɛ/	roupillions /ʁu.pij.jɔ̃/	roupilliez /ʁu.pij.je/	roupillaient /ʁu.pi.jɛ/
	past historic2	roupillai /ʁu.pi.je/	roupillas /ʁu.pi.ja/	roupilla /ʁu.pi.ja/	roupillâmes /ʁu.pi.jam/	roupillâtes /ʁu.pi.jat/	roupillèrent /ʁu.pi.jɛʁ/
	future	roupillerai /ʁu.pij.ʁe/	roupilleras /ʁu.pij.ʁa/	roupillera /ʁu.pij.ʁa/	roupillerons /ʁu.pij.ʁɔ̃/	roupillerez /ʁu.pij.ʁe/	roupilleront /ʁu.pij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	roupillerais /ʁu.pij.ʁɛ/	roupillerais /ʁu.pij.ʁɛ/	roupillerait /ʁu.pij.ʁɛ/	roupillerions /ʁu.pi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	roupilleriez /ʁu.pi.jə.ʁje/	roupilleraient /ʁu.pij.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	roupille /ʁu.pij/	roupilles /ʁu.pij/	roupille /ʁu.pij/	roupillions /ʁu.pij.jɔ̃/	roupilliez /ʁu.pij.je/	roupillent /ʁu.pij/
	imperfect2	roupillasse /ʁu.pi.jas/	roupillasses /ʁu.pi.jas/	roupillât /ʁu.pi.ja/	roupillassions /ʁu.pi.ja.sjɔ̃/	roupillassiez /ʁu.pi.ja.sje/	roupillassent /ʁu.pi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	roupille /ʁu.pij/	—	roupillons /ʁu.pi.jɔ̃/	roupillez /ʁu.pi.je/	—
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

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