farfouiller

French

Etymology

From far- +‎ fouiller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʁ.fu.je/

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Verb

farfouiller

1. (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

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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