affabuler
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
affabuler
- to make up stories, to tell a fable
- Je n'affabule en rien et me borne ici a transcrire ce qu'ils m'ont enseigné.
- I am not making up anything and I am restraining myself to transcribe what they taught me.
Conjugation
Conjugation of affabuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | affabuler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affabulant /a.fa.by.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affabulé /a.fa.by.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | affabule /a.fa.byl/ | affabules /a.fa.byl/ | affabule /a.fa.byl/ | affabulons /a.fa.by.lɔ̃/ | affabulez /a.fa.by.le/ | affabulent /a.fa.byl/ |
| imperfect | affabulais /a.fa.by.lɛ/ | affabulais /a.fa.by.lɛ/ | affabulait /a.fa.by.lɛ/ | affabulions /a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/ | affabuliez /a.fa.by.lje/ | affabulaient /a.fa.by.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affabulai /a.fa.by.le/ | affabulas /a.fa.by.la/ | affabula /a.fa.by.la/ | affabulâmes /a.fa.by.lam/ | affabulâtes /a.fa.by.lat/ | affabulèrent /a.fa.by.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | affabulerai /a.fa.byl.ʁe/ | affabuleras /a.fa.byl.ʁa/ | affabulera /a.fa.byl.ʁa/ | affabulerons /a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/ | affabulerez /a.fa.byl.ʁe/ | affabuleront /a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affabulerais /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ | affabulerais /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ | affabulerait /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/ | affabulerions /a.fa.by.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | affabuleriez /a.fa.by.lə.ʁje/ | affabuleraient /a.fa.byl.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 | affabule /a.fa.byl/ | affabules /a.fa.byl/ | affabule /a.fa.byl/ | affabulions /a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/ | affabuliez /a.fa.by.lje/ | affabulent /a.fa.byl/ |
| imperfect2 | affabulasse /a.fa.by.las/ | affabulasses /a.fa.by.las/ | affabulât /a.fa.by.la/ | affabulassions /a.fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/ | affabulassiez /a.fa.by.la.sje/ | affabulassent /a.fa.by.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affabule /a.fa.byl/ | — | affabulons /a.fa.by.lɔ̃/ | affabulez /a.fa.by.le/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- affabulation
- affabulateur
Further reading
- “affabuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.