trifouiller
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
trifouiller
- (colloquial) to tamper (with), tinker
- (colloquial, intransitive) to rummage, rummage around (+dans = in)
- (colloquial, intransitive) to dabble
- il trifouille dans l’art. ― he dabbles in art.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of trifouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trifouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trifouillant /tʁi.fu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trifouillé /tʁi.fu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/ |
trifouillez /tʁi.fu.je/ |
trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/ |
| imperfect | trifouillais /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ |
trifouillais /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ |
trifouillait /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ |
trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/ |
trifouillaient /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trifouillai /tʁi.fu.je/ |
trifouillas /tʁi.fu.ja/ |
trifouilla /tʁi.fu.ja/ |
trifouillâmes /tʁi.fu.jam/ |
trifouillâtes /tʁi.fu.jat/ |
trifouillèrent /tʁi.fu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | trifouillerai /tʁi.fuj.ʁe/ |
trifouilleras /tʁi.fuj.ʁa/ |
trifouillera /tʁi.fuj.ʁa/ |
trifouillerons /tʁi.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
trifouillerez /tʁi.fuj.ʁe/ |
trifouilleront /tʁi.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trifouillerais /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
trifouillerais /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
trifouillerait /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
trifouillerions /tʁi.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trifouilleriez /tʁi.fu.jə.ʁje/ |
trifouilleraient /tʁi.fuj.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 | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/ |
trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/ |
| imperfect2 | trifouillasse /tʁi.fu.jas/ |
trifouillasses /tʁi.fu.jas/ |
trifouillât /tʁi.fu.ja/ |
trifouillassions /tʁi.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
trifouillassiez /tʁi.fu.ja.sje/ |
trifouillassent /tʁi.fu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
— | trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/ |
trifouillez /tʁi.fu.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “trifouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.