farfouiller
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
farfouiller
- (intransitive) to rummage around
- 1970, Léo Ferré (lyrics and music), “Avec les temps”:
- À la galerie j’farfouille dans les rayons d’la mort / Le samedi soir quand la tendresse s’en va toute seule
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of farfouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | farfouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | farfouillant /faʁ.fu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | farfouillé /faʁ.fu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | farfouille /faʁ.fuj/ |
farfouilles /faʁ.fuj/ |
farfouille /faʁ.fuj/ |
farfouillons /faʁ.fu.jɔ̃/ |
farfouillez /faʁ.fu.je/ |
farfouillent /faʁ.fuj/ |
| imperfect | farfouillais /faʁ.fu.jɛ/ |
farfouillais /faʁ.fu.jɛ/ |
farfouillait /faʁ.fu.jɛ/ |
farfouillions /faʁ.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
farfouilliez /faʁ.fuj.je/ |
farfouillaient /faʁ.fu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | farfouillai /faʁ.fu.je/ |
farfouillas /faʁ.fu.ja/ |
farfouilla /faʁ.fu.ja/ |
farfouillâmes /faʁ.fu.jam/ |
farfouillâtes /faʁ.fu.jat/ |
farfouillèrent /faʁ.fu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | farfouillerai /faʁ.fuj.ʁe/ |
farfouilleras /faʁ.fuj.ʁa/ |
farfouillera /faʁ.fuj.ʁa/ |
farfouillerons /faʁ.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
farfouillerez /faʁ.fuj.ʁe/ |
farfouilleront /faʁ.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | farfouillerais /faʁ.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
farfouillerais /faʁ.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
farfouillerait /faʁ.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
farfouillerions /faʁ.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
farfouilleriez /faʁ.fu.jə.ʁje/ |
farfouilleraient /faʁ.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 | farfouille /faʁ.fuj/ |
farfouilles /faʁ.fuj/ |
farfouille /faʁ.fuj/ |
farfouillions /faʁ.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
farfouilliez /faʁ.fuj.je/ |
farfouillent /faʁ.fuj/ |
| imperfect2 | farfouillasse /faʁ.fu.jas/ |
farfouillasses /faʁ.fu.jas/ |
farfouillât /faʁ.fu.ja/ |
farfouillassions /faʁ.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
farfouillassiez /faʁ.fu.ja.sje/ |
farfouillassent /faʁ.fu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | farfouille /faʁ.fuj/ |
— | farfouillons /faʁ.fu.jɔ̃/ |
farfouillez /faʁ.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
- “farfouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.