fouiner

French

Etymology

From fouine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwi.ne/

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Verb

fouiner

1. (informal) to furrow, ferret, snoop around

Conjugation

Conjugation of fouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fouiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fouinant /fwi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fouiné /fwi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fouine /fwin/	fouines /fwin/	fouine /fwin/	fouinons /fwi.nɔ̃/	fouinez /fwi.ne/	fouinent /fwin/
	imperfect	fouinais /fwi.nɛ/	fouinais /fwi.nɛ/	fouinait /fwi.nɛ/	fouinions /fwi.njɔ̃/	fouiniez /fwi.nje/	fouinaient /fwi.nɛ/
	past historic2	fouinai /fwi.ne/	fouinas /fwi.na/	fouina /fwi.na/	fouinâmes /fwi.nam/	fouinâtes /fwi.nat/	fouinèrent /fwi.nɛʁ/
	future	fouinerai /fwin.ʁe/	fouineras /fwin.ʁa/	fouinera /fwin.ʁa/	fouinerons /fwin.ʁɔ̃/	fouinerez /fwin.ʁe/	fouineront /fwin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fouinerais /fwin.ʁɛ/	fouinerais /fwin.ʁɛ/	fouinerait /fwin.ʁɛ/	fouinerions /fwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	fouineriez /fwi.nə.ʁje/	fouineraient /fwin.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	fouine /fwin/	fouines /fwin/	fouine /fwin/	fouinions /fwi.njɔ̃/	fouiniez /fwi.nje/	fouinent /fwin/
	imperfect2	fouinasse /fwi.nas/	fouinasses /fwi.nas/	fouinât /fwi.na/	fouinassions /fwi.na.sjɔ̃/	fouinassiez /fwi.na.sje/	fouinassent /fwi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fouine /fwin/	—	fouinons /fwi.nɔ̃/	fouinez /fwi.ne/	—
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

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