dépaver
French, verb/de.pa.ve/
dépaver is spelled D-É-P-A-V-E-R (7 letters). Dépaver is a French verb meaning “to remove the cobblestones from a road; to unpave, to depave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir de pavés”.
What does dépaver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove the cobblestones from a road; to unpave, to depave
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir de pavés.
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 dépaver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dépavant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dépavé participle past
- dépave first-person indicative present
- dépaves indicative present second-person
- dépavons first-person indicative plural
- dépavez indicative plural present
- dépavent indicative plural present
- dépavais first-person imperfect indicative
- dépavait imperfect indicative singular
- dépavions first-person imperfect indicative
- dépaviez imperfect indicative plural
- dépavaient imperfect indicative plural
- dépavai first-person historic indicative
- dépavas historic indicative past
- dépava historic indicative past
- dépavâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dépaver?
- /de.pa.ve/
- \de.pa.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.