faufiler

See also: faûfiler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.fi.le/

• Audio:

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Verb

faufiler

1. (sewing) to baste
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to worm one's way, to slink (about)

Conjugation

Conjugation of faufiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	faufiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	faufilant /fo.fi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		faufilé /fo.fi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	faufile /fo.fil/	faufiles /fo.fil/	faufile /fo.fil/	faufilons /fo.fi.lɔ̃/	faufilez /fo.fi.le/	faufilent /fo.fil/
	imperfect	faufilais /fo.fi.lɛ/	faufilais /fo.fi.lɛ/	faufilait /fo.fi.lɛ/	faufilions /fo.fi.ljɔ̃/	faufiliez /fo.fi.lje/	faufilaient /fo.fi.lɛ/
	past historic2	faufilai /fo.fi.le/	faufilas /fo.fi.la/	faufila /fo.fi.la/	faufilâmes /fo.fi.lam/	faufilâtes /fo.fi.lat/	faufilèrent /fo.fi.lɛʁ/
	future	faufilerai /fo.fil.ʁe/	faufileras /fo.fil.ʁa/	faufilera /fo.fil.ʁa/	faufilerons /fo.fil.ʁɔ̃/	faufilerez /fo.fil.ʁe/	faufileront /fo.fil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	faufilerais /fo.fil.ʁɛ/	faufilerais /fo.fil.ʁɛ/	faufilerait /fo.fil.ʁɛ/	faufilerions /fo.fi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	faufileriez /fo.fi.lə.ʁje/	faufileraient /fo.fil.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	faufile /fo.fil/	faufiles /fo.fil/	faufile /fo.fil/	faufilions /fo.fi.ljɔ̃/	faufiliez /fo.fi.lje/	faufilent /fo.fil/
	imperfect2	faufilasse /fo.fi.las/	faufilasses /fo.fi.las/	faufilât /fo.fi.la/	faufilassions /fo.fi.la.sjɔ̃/	faufilassiez /fo.fi.la.sje/	faufilassent /fo.fi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	faufile /fo.fil/	—	faufilons /fo.fi.lɔ̃/	faufilez /fo.fi.le/	—
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

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