touffer

French

Etymology

From touffe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

touffer

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to clump together, clump up

Conjugation

Conjugation of touffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	touffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	touffant /tu.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		touffé /tu.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	touffe /tuf/	touffes /tuf/	touffe /tuf/	touffons /tu.fɔ̃/	touffez /tu.fe/	touffent /tuf/
	imperfect	touffais /tu.fɛ/	touffais /tu.fɛ/	touffait /tu.fɛ/	touffions /tu.fjɔ̃/	touffiez /tu.fje/	touffaient /tu.fɛ/
	past historic2	touffai /tu.fe/	touffas /tu.fa/	touffa /tu.fa/	touffâmes /tu.fam/	touffâtes /tu.fat/	touffèrent /tu.fɛʁ/
	future	toufferai /tu.fʁe/	toufferas /tu.fʁa/	touffera /tu.fʁa/	toufferons /tu.fʁɔ̃/	toufferez /tu.fʁe/	toufferont /tu.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toufferais /tu.fʁɛ/	toufferais /tu.fʁɛ/	toufferait /tu.fʁɛ/	toufferions /tu.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	toufferiez /tu.fə.ʁje/	toufferaient /tu.fʁɛ/
(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	touffe /tuf/	touffes /tuf/	touffe /tuf/	touffions /tu.fjɔ̃/	touffiez /tu.fje/	touffent /tuf/
	imperfect2	touffasse /tu.fas/	touffasses /tu.fas/	touffât /tu.fa/	touffassions /tu.fa.sjɔ̃/	touffassiez /tu.fa.sje/	touffassent /tu.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	touffe /tuf/	—	touffons /tu.fɔ̃/	touffez /tu.fe/	—
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

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