effilocher

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ filoche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.fi.lɔ.ʃe/

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Verb

effilocher

1. (transitive) to fray
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fray

Conjugation

Conjugation of effilocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	effilocher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	effilochant /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		effiloché /e.fi.lɔ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	effiloche /e.fi.lɔʃ/	effiloches /e.fi.lɔʃ/	effiloche /e.fi.lɔʃ/	effilochons /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɔ̃/	effilochez /e.fi.lɔ.ʃe/	effilochent /e.fi.lɔʃ/
	imperfect	effilochais /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɛ/	effilochais /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɛ/	effilochait /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɛ/	effilochions /e.fi.lɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	effilochiez /e.fi.lɔ.ʃje/	effilochaient /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	effilochai /e.fi.lɔ.ʃe/	effilochas /e.fi.lɔ.ʃa/	effilocha /e.fi.lɔ.ʃa/	effilochâmes /e.fi.lɔ.ʃam/	effilochâtes /e.fi.lɔ.ʃat/	effilochèrent /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	effilocherai /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁe/	effilocheras /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁa/	effilochera /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁa/	effilocherons /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/	effilocherez /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁe/	effilocheront /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	effilocherais /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁɛ/	effilocherais /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁɛ/	effilocherait /e.fi.lɔʃ.ʁɛ/	effilocherions /e.fi.lɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	effilocheriez /e.fi.lɔ.ʃə.ʁje/	effilocheraient /e.fi.lɔʃ.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	effiloche /e.fi.lɔʃ/	effiloches /e.fi.lɔʃ/	effiloche /e.fi.lɔʃ/	effilochions /e.fi.lɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	effilochiez /e.fi.lɔ.ʃje/	effilochent /e.fi.lɔʃ/
	imperfect2	effilochasse /e.fi.lɔ.ʃas/	effilochasses /e.fi.lɔ.ʃas/	effilochât /e.fi.lɔ.ʃa/	effilochassions /e.fi.lɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	effilochassiez /e.fi.lɔ.ʃa.sje/	effilochassent /e.fi.lɔ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	effiloche /e.fi.lɔʃ/	—	effilochons /e.fi.lɔ.ʃɔ̃/	effilochez /e.fi.lɔ.ʃe/	—
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

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