stopper
/stɔ.pe/ verb B1- to stop, in regard to motors and machines · Une puissante voiture de marque étrangère stoppa au bout de l’avenue Ruysdaël, tout près de l’entrée du parc Monceau. A powerful foreign car stopped at the end of Ruysdaël Avenue, very close to the entrance to Monceau Park.
- to take (a hit, a bullet) · Il avait stoppé un coquet gnon derrière les oreilles, mais il n’était pas mort. He'd taken a nice, hard punch behind his ears, but he wasn't dead.
- to stop · il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente This permanent hostility must be stopped.
Verb forms
- Infinitive
- stopper
- Present participle
- stoppant
- Past participle
- stoppé
- Present (je)
- stoppe
- Future (je)
- stopperai
- Passé composé (je)
- ai stoppé
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