faufiler
See also: faûfiler
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fo.fi.le/
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Verb
faufiler
- (sewing) to baste
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to worm one's way, to slink (about)
Conjugation
Conjugation of faufiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | faufiler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | faufilant /fo.fi.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | faufilé /fo.fi.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | faufile /fo.fil/ | faufiles /fo.fil/ | faufile /fo.fil/ | faufilons /fo.fi.lɔ̃/ | faufilez /fo.fi.le/ | faufilent /fo.fil/ |
| imperfect | faufilais /fo.fi.lɛ/ | faufilais /fo.fi.lɛ/ | faufilait /fo.fi.lɛ/ | faufilions /fo.fi.ljɔ̃/ | faufiliez /fo.fi.lje/ | faufilaient /fo.fi.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | faufilai /fo.fi.le/ | faufilas /fo.fi.la/ | faufila /fo.fi.la/ | faufilâmes /fo.fi.lam/ | faufilâtes /fo.fi.lat/ | faufilèrent /fo.fi.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | faufilerai /fo.fil.ʁe/ | faufileras /fo.fil.ʁa/ | faufilera /fo.fil.ʁa/ | faufilerons /fo.fil.ʁɔ̃/ | faufilerez /fo.fil.ʁe/ | faufileront /fo.fil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | faufilerais /fo.fil.ʁɛ/ | faufilerais /fo.fil.ʁɛ/ | faufilerait /fo.fil.ʁɛ/ | faufilerions /fo.fi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | faufileriez /fo.fi.lə.ʁje/ | faufileraient /fo.fil.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 | faufile /fo.fil/ | faufiles /fo.fil/ | faufile /fo.fil/ | faufilions /fo.fi.ljɔ̃/ | faufiliez /fo.fi.lje/ | faufilent /fo.fil/ |
| imperfect2 | faufilasse /fo.fi.las/ | faufilasses /fo.fi.las/ | faufilât /fo.fi.la/ | faufilassions /fo.fi.la.sjɔ̃/ | faufilassiez /fo.fi.la.sje/ | faufilassent /fo.fi.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | faufile /fo.fil/ | — | faufilons /fo.fi.lɔ̃/ | faufilez /fo.fi.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “faufiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.