bidouiller
French edit
Etymology edit
bidouille (“idiot”, dialectal word) + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bidouiller
- (colloquial, transitive) to fiddle (with)
- Le gouvernement bidouille les chiffres du chômage.
- The government manipulates unemployment statistics.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bidouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bidouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bidouillant /bi.du.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bidouillé /bi.du.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bidouille /bi.duj/ |
bidouilles /bi.duj/ |
bidouille /bi.duj/ |
bidouillons /bi.du.jɔ̃/ |
bidouillez /bi.du.je/ |
bidouillent /bi.duj/ |
| imperfect | bidouillais /bi.du.jɛ/ |
bidouillais /bi.du.jɛ/ |
bidouillait /bi.du.jɛ/ |
bidouillions /bi.duj.jɔ̃/ |
bidouilliez /bi.duj.je/ |
bidouillaient /bi.du.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bidouillai /bi.du.je/ |
bidouillas /bi.du.ja/ |
bidouilla /bi.du.ja/ |
bidouillâmes /bi.du.jam/ |
bidouillâtes /bi.du.jat/ |
bidouillèrent /bi.du.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | bidouillerai /bi.duj.ʁe/ |
bidouilleras /bi.duj.ʁa/ |
bidouillera /bi.duj.ʁa/ |
bidouillerons /bi.duj.ʁɔ̃/ |
bidouillerez /bi.duj.ʁe/ |
bidouilleront /bi.duj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bidouillerais /bi.duj.ʁɛ/ |
bidouillerais /bi.duj.ʁɛ/ |
bidouillerait /bi.duj.ʁɛ/ |
bidouillerions /bi.du.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bidouilleriez /bi.du.jə.ʁje/ |
bidouilleraient /bi.duj.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | bidouille /bi.duj/ |
bidouilles /bi.duj/ |
bidouille /bi.duj/ |
bidouillions /bi.duj.jɔ̃/ |
bidouilliez /bi.duj.je/ |
bidouillent /bi.duj/ |
| imperfect2 | bidouillasse /bi.du.jas/ |
bidouillasses /bi.du.jas/ |
bidouillât /bi.du.ja/ |
bidouillassions /bi.du.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
bidouillassiez /bi.du.ja.sje/ |
bidouillassent /bi.du.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bidouille /bi.duj/ |
— | bidouillons /bi.du.jɔ̃/ |
bidouillez /bi.du.je/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||