trépaner

French

Etymology

From trépan +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.pa.ne/

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Verb

trépaner

1. (transitive, surgery) to trepan

Conjugation

Conjugation of trépaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trépaner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trépanant /tʁe.pa.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trépané /tʁe.pa.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trépane /tʁe.pan/	trépanes /tʁe.pan/	trépane /tʁe.pan/	trépanons /tʁe.pa.nɔ̃/	trépanez /tʁe.pa.ne/	trépanent /tʁe.pan/
	imperfect	trépanais /tʁe.pa.nɛ/	trépanais /tʁe.pa.nɛ/	trépanait /tʁe.pa.nɛ/	trépanions /tʁe.pa.njɔ̃/	trépaniez /tʁe.pa.nje/	trépanaient /tʁe.pa.nɛ/
	past historic2	trépanai /tʁe.pa.ne/	trépanas /tʁe.pa.na/	trépana /tʁe.pa.na/	trépanâmes /tʁe.pa.nam/	trépanâtes /tʁe.pa.nat/	trépanèrent /tʁe.pa.nɛʁ/
	future	trépanerai /tʁe.pan.ʁe/	trépaneras /tʁe.pan.ʁa/	trépanera /tʁe.pan.ʁa/	trépanerons /tʁe.pan.ʁɔ̃/	trépanerez /tʁe.pan.ʁe/	trépaneront /tʁe.pan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trépanerais /tʁe.pan.ʁɛ/	trépanerais /tʁe.pan.ʁɛ/	trépanerait /tʁe.pan.ʁɛ/	trépanerions /tʁe.pa.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	trépaneriez /tʁe.pa.nə.ʁje/	trépaneraient /tʁe.pan.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	trépane /tʁe.pan/	trépanes /tʁe.pan/	trépane /tʁe.pan/	trépanions /tʁe.pa.njɔ̃/	trépaniez /tʁe.pa.nje/	trépanent /tʁe.pan/
	imperfect2	trépanasse /tʁe.pa.nas/	trépanasses /tʁe.pa.nas/	trépanât /tʁe.pa.na/	trépanassions /tʁe.pa.na.sjɔ̃/	trépanassiez /tʁe.pa.na.sje/	trépanassent /tʁe.pa.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trépane /tʁe.pan/	—	trépanons /tʁe.pa.nɔ̃/	trépanez /tʁe.pa.ne/	—
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

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