fourguer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

fourguer

1. to sell off; to flog
2. to get rid of, offload (something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of fourguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fourguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fourguant /fuʁ.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fourgué /fuʁ.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fourgue /fuʁɡ/	fourgues /fuʁɡ/	fourgue /fuʁɡ/	fourguons /fuʁ.ɡɔ̃/	fourguez /fuʁ.ɡe/	fourguent /fuʁɡ/
	imperfect	fourguais /fuʁ.ɡɛ/	fourguais /fuʁ.ɡɛ/	fourguait /fuʁ.ɡɛ/	fourguions /fuʁ.ɡjɔ̃/	fourguiez /fuʁ.ɡje/	fourguaient /fuʁ.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	fourguai /fuʁ.ɡe/	fourguas /fuʁ.ɡa/	fourgua /fuʁ.ɡa/	fourguâmes /fuʁ.ɡam/	fourguâtes /fuʁ.ɡat/	fourguèrent /fuʁ.ɡɛʁ/
	future	fourguerai /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁe/	fourgueras /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁa/	fourguera /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁa/	fourguerons /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/	fourguerez /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁe/	fourgueront /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fourguerais /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/	fourguerais /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/	fourguerait /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/	fourguerions /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	fourgueriez /fuʁ.ɡə.ʁje/	fourgueraient /fuʁ.ɡə.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	fourgue /fuʁɡ/	fourgues /fuʁɡ/	fourgue /fuʁɡ/	fourguions /fuʁ.ɡjɔ̃/	fourguiez /fuʁ.ɡje/	fourguent /fuʁɡ/
	imperfect2	fourguasse /fuʁ.ɡas/	fourguasses /fuʁ.ɡas/	fourguât /fuʁ.ɡa/	fourguassions /fuʁ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	fourguassiez /fuʁ.ɡa.sje/	fourguassent /fuʁ.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fourgue /fuʁɡ/	—	fourguons /fuʁ.ɡɔ̃/	fourguez /fuʁ.ɡe/	—
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

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