affabuler
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VerbEdit
affabuler
- to make up stories, to tell a fable
- Je n'affabule en rien et me borne ici a transcrire ce qu'ils m'ont enseigné.
- I am not making up anything and I am restraining myself to transcribe what they taught me.
- Je n'affabule en rien et me borne ici a transcrire ce qu'ils m'ont enseigné.
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of affabuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | affabuler | avoir + past participle | |||||
| gerund | en affabulant | en ayant + past participle | |||||
| present participle | affabulant /a.fa.by.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | affabulé /a.fa.by.le/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | affabule /a.fa.byl/ |
affabules /a.fa.byl/ |
affabule /a.fa.byl/ |
affabulons /a.fa.by.lɔ̃/ |
affabulez /a.fa.by.le/ |
affabulent /a.fa.byl/ |
| imperfect | affabulais /a.fa.by.lɛ/ |
affabulais /a.fa.by.lɛ/ |
affabulait /a.fa.by.lɛ/ |
affabulions /a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/ |
affabuliez /a.fa.by.lje/ |
affabulaient /a.fa.by.lɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | affabulai /a.fa.by.le/ |
affabulas /a.fa.by.la/ |
affabula /a.fa.by.la/ |
affabulâmes /a.fa.by.lam/ |
affabulâtes /a.fa.by.lat/ |
affabulèrent /a.fa.by.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | affabulerai /a.fa.byl.ʁe/ |
affabuleras /a.fa.byl.ʁa/ |
affabulera /a.fa.byl.ʁa/ |
affabulerons /a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/ |
affabulerez /a.fa.byl.ʁe/ |
affabuleront /a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affabulerais /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ |
affabulerais /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ |
affabulerait /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ |
affabulerions /a.fa.by.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affabuleriez /a.fa.by.lə.ʁje/ |
affabuleraient /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | 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 | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | affabule /a.fa.byl/ |
affabules /a.fa.byl/ |
affabule /a.fa.byl/ |
affabulions /a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/ |
affabuliez /a.fa.by.lje/ |
affabulent /a.fa.byl/ |
| imperfect1 | affabulasse /a.fa.by.las/ |
affabulasses /a.fa.by.las/ |
affabulât /a.fa.by.la/ |
affabulassions /a.fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/ |
affabulassiez /a.fa.by.la.sje/ |
affabulassent /a.fa.by.las/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| present | — | affabule /a.fa.byl/ |
— | affabulons /a.fa.by.lɔ̃/ |
affabulez /a.fa.by.le/ |
— | |
| past | — | present imperative of avoir + past participle2 | — | present imperative of avoir + past participle2 | present imperative of avoir + past participle2 | — | |
| 1 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
| 2 Trudie Maria Booth (2005), French Verbs and Idioms, p. 88. | |||||||
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “affabuler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).