chaparder
French, verb/ʃa.paʁ.de/
chaparder is spelled C-H-A-P-A-R-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chaparder is a French verb meaning “to pinch, pilfer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rapiner, voler pour un maigre butin”.
What does chaparder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pinch, pilfer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rapiner, voler pour un maigre butin.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chaparder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chapardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chapardé participle past
- chaparde first-person indicative present
- chapardes indicative present second-person
- chapardons first-person indicative plural
- chapardez indicative plural present
- chapardent indicative plural present
- chapardais first-person imperfect indicative
- chapardait imperfect indicative singular
- chapardions first-person imperfect indicative
- chapardiez imperfect indicative plural
- chapardaient imperfect indicative plural
- chapardai first-person historic indicative
- chapardas historic indicative past
- chaparda historic indicative past
- chapardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chaparder?
- /ʃa.paʁ.de/
- \ʃa.paʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chaparder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chaparder in French?
chaparder appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).