fabriquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fabricāre, present active infinitive of fabricō. Doublet of forger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.bʁi.ke/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: fabriquai, fabriqué, fabriquée, fabriquées, fabriqués, fabriquez
Verb
fabriquer
- to make; to build ; to manufacture
- to fabricate
- (informal, colloquial) to be up to, a more polite than ficher, less polite than faire
- Qu'est-ce que tu fabriques ? ― What are you doing?
Conjugation
Conjugation of fabriquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fabriquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fabriquant /fa.bʁi.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fabriqué /fa.bʁi.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ | fabriques /fa.bʁik/ | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ | fabriquons /fa.bʁi.kɔ̃/ | fabriquez /fa.bʁi.ke/ | fabriquent /fa.bʁik/ |
| imperfect | fabriquais /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ | fabriquais /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ | fabriquait /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ | fabriquions /fa.bʁi.kjɔ̃/ | fabriquiez /fa.bʁi.kje/ | fabriquaient /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fabriquai /fa.bʁi.ke/ | fabriquas /fa.bʁi.ka/ | fabriqua /fa.bʁi.ka/ | fabriquâmes /fa.bʁi.kam/ | fabriquâtes /fa.bʁi.kat/ | fabriquèrent /fa.bʁi.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | fabriquerai /fa.bʁi.kʁe/ | fabriqueras /fa.bʁi.kʁa/ | fabriquera /fa.bʁi.kʁa/ | fabriquerons /fa.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/ | fabriquerez /fa.bʁi.kʁe/ | fabriqueront /fa.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fabriquerais /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | fabriquerais /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | fabriquerait /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | fabriquerions /fa.bʁi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fabriqueriez /fa.bʁi.kə.ʁje/ | fabriqueraient /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ | fabriques /fa.bʁik/ | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ | fabriquions /fa.bʁi.kjɔ̃/ | fabriquiez /fa.bʁi.kje/ | fabriquent /fa.bʁik/ |
| imperfect2 | fabriquasse /fa.bʁi.kas/ | fabriquasses /fa.bʁi.kas/ | fabriquât /fa.bʁi.ka/ | fabriquassions /fa.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/ | fabriquassiez /fa.bʁi.ka.sje/ | fabriquassent /fa.bʁi.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ | — | fabriquons /fa.bʁi.kɔ̃/ | fabriquez /fa.bʁi.ke/ | — | |
| 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
- fabricateur
- fabricatrice
Further reading
- “fabriquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “fabriquer” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
- “fabriquer” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.