grouper

English
a giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

group +‎ -er

Noun

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡʁu.pe/
  • grouper(file)

Verb

grouper

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

Conjugation
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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