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grouper

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English

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a giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus)

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Etymology 1

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From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.

Noun

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grouper (plural groupers or grouper)

  1. Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
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Etymology 2

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From group +‎ -er.

Noun

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grouper (plural groupers)

  1. One who groups things.
  2. (dated) A groupie.
    • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 5:
      There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡʁu.pe/
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Verb

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grouper

  1. to group (to put together to form a group)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of grouper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple grouper
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple groupant
/ɡʁu.pɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle groupé
/ɡʁu.pe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present groupe
/ɡʁup/ 		groupes
/ɡʁup/ 		groupe
/ɡʁup/ 		groupons
/ɡʁu.pɔ̃/ 		groupez
/ɡʁu.pe/ 		groupent
/ɡʁup/
imperfect groupais
/ɡʁu.pɛ/ 		groupais
/ɡʁu.pɛ/ 		groupait
/ɡʁu.pɛ/ 		groupions
/ɡʁu.pjɔ̃/ 		groupiez
/ɡʁu.pje/ 		groupaient
/ɡʁu.pɛ/
past historic2 groupai
/ɡʁu.pe/ 		groupas
/ɡʁu.pa/ 		groupa
/ɡʁu.pa/ 		groupâmes
/ɡʁu.pam/ 		groupâtes
/ɡʁu.pat/ 		groupèrent
/ɡʁu.pɛʁ/
future grouperai
/ɡʁu.pʁe/ 		grouperas
/ɡʁu.pʁa/ 		groupera
/ɡʁu.pʁa/ 		grouperons
/ɡʁu.pʁɔ̃/ 		grouperez
/ɡʁu.pʁe/ 		grouperont
/ɡʁu.pʁɔ̃/
conditional grouperais
/ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ 		grouperais
/ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ 		grouperait
/ɡʁu.pʁɛ/ 		grouperions
/ɡʁu.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		grouperiez
/ɡʁu.pə.ʁje/ 		grouperaient
/ɡʁu.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 groupe
/ɡʁup/ 		groupes
/ɡʁup/ 		groupe
/ɡʁup/ 		groupions
/ɡʁu.pjɔ̃/ 		groupiez
/ɡʁu.pje/ 		groupent
/ɡʁup/
imperfect2 groupasse
/ɡʁu.pas/ 		groupasses
/ɡʁu.pas/ 		groupât
/ɡʁu.pa/ 		groupassions
/ɡʁu.pa.sjɔ̃/ 		groupassiez
/ɡʁu.pa.sje/ 		groupassent
/ɡʁu.pas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — groupe
/ɡʁup/ 		— groupons
/ɡʁu.pɔ̃/ 		groupez
/ɡʁu.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).

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