foirer
French edit
Etymology edit
From foire (“diarrhoea, fuckup”) + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
foirer
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) to screw up, mess up
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of foirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | foirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | foirant /fwa.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | foiré /fwa.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | foire /fwaʁ/ |
foires /fwaʁ/ |
foire /fwaʁ/ |
foirons /fwa.ʁɔ̃/ |
foirez /fwa.ʁe/ |
foirent /fwaʁ/ |
| imperfect | foirais /fwa.ʁɛ/ |
foirais /fwa.ʁɛ/ |
foirait /fwa.ʁɛ/ |
foirions /fwa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
foiriez /fwa.ʁje/ |
foiraient /fwa.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | foirai /fwa.ʁe/ |
foiras /fwa.ʁa/ |
foira /fwa.ʁa/ |
foirâmes /fwa.ʁam/ |
foirâtes /fwa.ʁat/ |
foirèrent /fwa.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | foirerai /fwa.ʁə.ʁe/ |
foireras /fwa.ʁə.ʁa/ |
foirera /fwa.ʁə.ʁa/ |
foirerons /fwa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
foirerez /fwa.ʁə.ʁe/ |
foireront /fwa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | foirerais /fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
foirerais /fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
foirerait /fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
foirerions /fwa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
foireriez /fwa.ʁə.ʁje/ |
foireraient /fwa.ʁə.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 | foire /fwaʁ/ |
foires /fwaʁ/ |
foire /fwaʁ/ |
foirions /fwa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
foiriez /fwa.ʁje/ |
foirent /fwaʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | foirasse /fwa.ʁas/ |
foirasses /fwa.ʁas/ |
foirât /fwa.ʁa/ |
foirassions /fwa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
foirassiez /fwa.ʁa.sje/ |
foirassent /fwa.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | foire /fwaʁ/ |
— | foirons /fwa.ʁɔ̃/ |
foirez /fwa.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “foirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.