morfler

French

Etymology

Variant of morfiler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ.fle/

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Verb

morfler

1. (intransitive, slang) to pay, to be in for it
   • 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     J’ai dû trouver un exutoire pour passer mes nerfs / Et un skin a morflé des coups de Black et Decker

     I had to find someone to take it out on / And a skinhead bore the brunt of my Black and Decker

Conjugation

Conjugation of morfler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	morfler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	morflant /mɔʁ.flɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		morflé /mɔʁ.fle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	morfle /mɔʁfl/	morfles /mɔʁfl/	morfle /mɔʁfl/	morflons /mɔʁ.flɔ̃/	morflez /mɔʁ.fle/	morflent /mɔʁfl/
	imperfect	morflais /mɔʁ.flɛ/	morflais /mɔʁ.flɛ/	morflait /mɔʁ.flɛ/	morflions /mɔʁ.fli.jɔ̃/	morfliez /mɔʁ.fli.je/	morflaient /mɔʁ.flɛ/
	past historic2	morflai /mɔʁ.fle/	morflas /mɔʁ.fla/	morfla /mɔʁ.fla/	morflâmes /mɔʁ.flam/	morflâtes /mɔʁ.flat/	morflèrent /mɔʁ.flɛʁ/
	future	morflerai /mɔʁ.flə.ʁe/	morfleras /mɔʁ.flə.ʁa/	morflera /mɔʁ.flə.ʁa/	morflerons /mɔʁ.flə.ʁɔ̃/	morflerez /mɔʁ.flə.ʁe/	morfleront /mɔʁ.flə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	morflerais /mɔʁ.flə.ʁɛ/	morflerais /mɔʁ.flə.ʁɛ/	morflerait /mɔʁ.flə.ʁɛ/	morflerions /mɔʁ.flə.ʁjɔ̃/	morfleriez /mɔʁ.flə.ʁje/	morfleraient /mɔʁ.flə.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	morfle /mɔʁfl/	morfles /mɔʁfl/	morfle /mɔʁfl/	morflions /mɔʁ.fli.jɔ̃/	morfliez /mɔʁ.fli.je/	morflent /mɔʁfl/
	imperfect2	morflasse /mɔʁ.flas/	morflasses /mɔʁ.flas/	morflât /mɔʁ.fla/	morflassions /mɔʁ.fla.sjɔ̃/	morflassiez /mɔʁ.fla.sje/	morflassent /mɔʁ.flas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	morfle /mɔʁfl/	—	morflons /mɔʁ.flɔ̃/	morflez /mɔʁ.fle/	—
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

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