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il échappait

was coming out, was escaping

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échapp to escape, to get away + ait il/elle imperfect conjugation
verb · 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #35,446
was coming out, was escaping Used for something escaping or emerging from a place, such as smoke or a sound.
FR: De la vapeur s’échappait de la casserole.
EN: Steam was coming out of the pot.
was escaping
FR: Le prisonnier s’échappait par la fenêtre.
EN: The prisoner was escaping through the window.
Conjugation of échapper
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
Third échappait —

De la fumée s'échappait du moteur.

Smoke was coming from the engine.

Aucun murmure du passé ne s'échappait de ces murs.

Not a whisper from the past escaped these walls.

— Rebecca (1940)

Et tout s’échappait en permanence.

And everything was constantly escaping.

— Demon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba - Le film : La Forteresse infinie (2025)

Sans vous, Arsène Lupin se trompait, et l'autre s'échappait !

Without you, Arsène Lupin would have been mistaken, and the other man would have escaped!

Tout lui échappait des mains.

Everything kept slipping out of his hands.

— Cemetery of Splendour (2015)

Il y avait quelque chose qui m’échappait.

There was something I was missing.

Le gaz s'échappait d'une fissure dans la conduite.

Gas was escaping from a crack in the pipe.

L'essence s'échappait d'une fissure dans le tube.

Gasoline was leaking from a crack in the tube.

La dimension de notre relation m'échappait jusqu'alors.

Until then, I hadn’t grasped the depth of our relationship.

— Fight Club (1999)

Et qu'arriverait-il s'il s'échappait ?

And what would happen if he escaped?

— M le maudit (1931)