magouiller

French

Etymology

From magouille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡu.je/

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Verb

magouiller

1. (informal, intransitive) to wangle, to achieve by contrivance or trickery

Conjugation

Conjugation of magouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	magouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	magouillant /ma.ɡu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		magouillé /ma.ɡu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	magouille /ma.ɡuj/	magouilles /ma.ɡuj/	magouille /ma.ɡuj/	magouillons /ma.ɡu.jɔ̃/	magouillez /ma.ɡu.je/	magouillent /ma.ɡuj/
	imperfect	magouillais /ma.ɡu.jɛ/	magouillais /ma.ɡu.jɛ/	magouillait /ma.ɡu.jɛ/	magouillions /ma.ɡuj.jɔ̃/	magouilliez /ma.ɡuj.je/	magouillaient /ma.ɡu.jɛ/
	past historic2	magouillai /ma.ɡu.je/	magouillas /ma.ɡu.ja/	magouilla /ma.ɡu.ja/	magouillâmes /ma.ɡu.jam/	magouillâtes /ma.ɡu.jat/	magouillèrent /ma.ɡu.jɛʁ/
	future	magouillerai /ma.ɡuj.ʁe/	magouilleras /ma.ɡuj.ʁa/	magouillera /ma.ɡuj.ʁa/	magouillerons /ma.ɡuj.ʁɔ̃/	magouillerez /ma.ɡuj.ʁe/	magouilleront /ma.ɡuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	magouillerais /ma.ɡuj.ʁɛ/	magouillerais /ma.ɡuj.ʁɛ/	magouillerait /ma.ɡuj.ʁɛ/	magouillerions /ma.ɡu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	magouilleriez /ma.ɡu.jə.ʁje/	magouilleraient /ma.ɡuj.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	magouille /ma.ɡuj/	magouilles /ma.ɡuj/	magouille /ma.ɡuj/	magouillions /ma.ɡuj.jɔ̃/	magouilliez /ma.ɡuj.je/	magouillent /ma.ɡuj/
	imperfect2	magouillasse /ma.ɡu.jas/	magouillasses /ma.ɡu.jas/	magouillât /ma.ɡu.ja/	magouillassions /ma.ɡu.ja.sjɔ̃/	magouillassiez /ma.ɡu.ja.sje/	magouillassent /ma.ɡu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	magouille /ma.ɡuj/	—	magouillons /ma.ɡu.jɔ̃/	magouillez /ma.ɡu.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).

Derived terms

• magouillage
• magouilleur

Further reading

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