malfaire
French edit
Etymology edit
mal + faire, or from Latin malefacere. Compare Italian malfare.
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
malfaire
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of malfaire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | malfaire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | malfaisant /mal.fə.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | malfait /mal.fɛ/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | malfais /mal.fɛ/ |
malfais /mal.fɛ/ |
malfait /mal.fɛ/ |
malfaisons /mal.fə.zɔ̃/ |
malfaites /mal.fɛt/ |
malfont /mal.fɔ̃/ |
| imperfect | malfaisais /mal.fə.zɛ/ |
malfaisais /mal.fə.zɛ/ |
malfaisait /mal.fə.zɛ/ |
malfaisions /mal.fə.zjɔ̃/ |
malfaisiez /mal.fə.zje/ |
malfaisaient /mal.fə.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | malfis /mal.fi/ |
malfis /mal.fi/ |
malfit /mal.fi/ |
malfîmes /mal.fim/ |
malfîtes /mal.fit/ |
malfirent /mal.fiʁ/ | |
| future | malferai /mal.fə.ʁe/ |
malferas /mal.fə.ʁa/ |
malfera /mal.fə.ʁa/ |
malferons /mal.fə.ʁɔ̃/ |
malferez /mal.fə.ʁe/ |
malferont /mal.fə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | malferais /mal.fə.ʁɛ/ |
malferais /mal.fə.ʁɛ/ |
malferait /mal.fə.ʁɛ/ |
malferions /mal.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
malferiez /mal.fə.ʁje/ |
malferaient /mal.fə.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 | malfasse /mal.fas/ |
malfasses /mal.fas/ |
malfasse /mal.fas/ |
malfassions /mal.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
malfassiez /mal.fa.sje/ |
malfassent /mal.fas/ |
| imperfect2 | malfisse /mal.fis/ |
malfisses /mal.fis/ |
malfît /mal.fi/ |
malfissions /mal.fi.sjɔ̃/ |
malfissiez /mal.fi.sje/ |
malfissent /mal.fis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | malfais /mal.fɛ/ |
— | malfaisons /mal.fə.zɔ̃/ |
malfaites /mal.fɛt/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further reading edit
- “malfaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.