agriffer

French

Etymology

From griffe.

Pronunciation

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Verb

agriffer

1. to claw
2. to grasp

Conjugation

Conjugation of agriffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agriffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agriffant /a.ɡʁi.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agriffé /a.ɡʁi.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agriffe /a.ɡʁif/	agriffes /a.ɡʁif/	agriffe /a.ɡʁif/	agriffons /a.ɡʁi.fɔ̃/	agriffez /a.ɡʁi.fe/	agriffent /a.ɡʁif/
	imperfect	agriffais /a.ɡʁi.fɛ/	agriffais /a.ɡʁi.fɛ/	agriffait /a.ɡʁi.fɛ/	agriffions /a.ɡʁi.fjɔ̃/	agriffiez /a.ɡʁi.fje/	agriffaient /a.ɡʁi.fɛ/
	past historic2	agriffai /a.ɡʁi.fe/	agriffas /a.ɡʁi.fa/	agriffa /a.ɡʁi.fa/	agriffâmes /a.ɡʁi.fam/	agriffâtes /a.ɡʁi.fat/	agriffèrent /a.ɡʁi.fɛʁ/
	future	agrifferai /a.ɡʁi.fʁe/	agrifferas /a.ɡʁi.fʁa/	agriffera /a.ɡʁi.fʁa/	agrifferons /a.ɡʁi.fʁɔ̃/	agrifferez /a.ɡʁi.fʁe/	agrifferont /a.ɡʁi.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agrifferais /a.ɡʁi.fʁɛ/	agrifferais /a.ɡʁi.fʁɛ/	agrifferait /a.ɡʁi.fʁɛ/	agrifferions /a.ɡʁi.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	agrifferiez /a.ɡʁi.fə.ʁje/	agrifferaient /a.ɡʁi.fʁɛ/
(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	agriffe /a.ɡʁif/	agriffes /a.ɡʁif/	agriffe /a.ɡʁif/	agriffions /a.ɡʁi.fjɔ̃/	agriffiez /a.ɡʁi.fje/	agriffent /a.ɡʁif/
	imperfect2	agriffasse /a.ɡʁi.fas/	agriffasses /a.ɡʁi.fas/	agriffât /a.ɡʁi.fa/	agriffassions /a.ɡʁi.fa.sjɔ̃/	agriffassiez /a.ɡʁi.fa.sje/	agriffassent /a.ɡʁi.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agriffe /a.ɡʁif/	—	agriffons /a.ɡʁi.fɔ̃/	agriffez /a.ɡʁi.fe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “agriffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Poitevin-Saintongeais

Verb

agriffer

1. to scratch

References

• Jônain, Pierre. Dictionnaire du patois Saintongeais. 1869. Page 40.