bafouiller
French edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain; probably borrowed from Franco-Provençal (Lyonnais) barfouiller, from a cross of barbouiller and fouiller.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bafouiller
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bafouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bafouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bafouillant /ba.fu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bafouillé /ba.fu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bafouille /ba.fuj/ |
bafouilles /ba.fuj/ |
bafouille /ba.fuj/ |
bafouillons /ba.fu.jɔ̃/ |
bafouillez /ba.fu.je/ |
bafouillent /ba.fuj/ |
| imperfect | bafouillais /ba.fu.jɛ/ |
bafouillais /ba.fu.jɛ/ |
bafouillait /ba.fu.jɛ/ |
bafouillions /ba.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
bafouilliez /ba.fuj.je/ |
bafouillaient /ba.fu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bafouillai /ba.fu.je/ |
bafouillas /ba.fu.ja/ |
bafouilla /ba.fu.ja/ |
bafouillâmes /ba.fu.jam/ |
bafouillâtes /ba.fu.jat/ |
bafouillèrent /ba.fu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | bafouillerai /ba.fuj.ʁe/ |
bafouilleras /ba.fuj.ʁa/ |
bafouillera /ba.fuj.ʁa/ |
bafouillerons /ba.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
bafouillerez /ba.fuj.ʁe/ |
bafouilleront /ba.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bafouillerais /ba.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
bafouillerais /ba.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
bafouillerait /ba.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
bafouillerions /ba.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bafouilleriez /ba.fu.jə.ʁje/ |
bafouilleraient /ba.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 | bafouille /ba.fuj/ |
bafouilles /ba.fuj/ |
bafouille /ba.fuj/ |
bafouillions /ba.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
bafouilliez /ba.fuj.je/ |
bafouillent /ba.fuj/ |
| imperfect2 | bafouillasse /ba.fu.jas/ |
bafouillasses /ba.fu.jas/ |
bafouillât /ba.fu.ja/ |
bafouillassions /ba.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
bafouillassiez /ba.fu.ja.sje/ |
bafouillassent /ba.fu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bafouille /ba.fuj/ |
— | bafouillons /ba.fu.jɔ̃/ |
bafouillez /ba.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
- “bafouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.