fouiller
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fodiclāre < *fodiculāre, from Latin fodicāre, from fodere. Compare fouir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu.je/
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Verb
fouiller
- (transitive) to search (place, thing)
- 1873: Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude. (Zola, Le Ventre de Paris)
- He searched his memories, remembered not a single hour of plenty.
- 1873: Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude. (Zola, Le Ventre de Paris)
- (transitive) to search, frisk (person)
- (transitive) to go into, investigate (question, issue)
- (intransitive) to rummage, delve (dans in)
- J'ai fouillé dans mon sac, mais je n'ai pas pu trouver mon portefeuille.
- I rummaged through my bag, but I couldn't find my wallet.
- (reflexive) to go through one's pockets
- (transitive) to dig
Conjugation
Conjugation of fouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fouillant /fu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fouillé /fu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fouille /fuj/ | fouilles /fuj/ | fouille /fuj/ | fouillons /fu.jɔ̃/ | fouillez /fu.je/ | fouillent /fuj/ |
| imperfect | fouillais /fu.jɛ/ | fouillais /fu.jɛ/ | fouillait /fu.jɛ/ | fouillions /fuj.jɔ̃/ | fouilliez /fuj.je/ | fouillaient /fu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fouillai /fu.je/ | fouillas /fu.ja/ | fouilla /fu.ja/ | fouillâmes /fu.jam/ | fouillâtes /fu.jat/ | fouillèrent /fu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | fouillerai /fuj.ʁe/ | fouilleras /fuj.ʁa/ | fouillera /fuj.ʁa/ | fouillerons /fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | fouillerez /fuj.ʁe/ | fouilleront /fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fouillerais /fuj.ʁɛ/ | fouillerais /fuj.ʁɛ/ | fouillerait /fuj.ʁɛ/ | fouillerions /fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fouilleriez /fu.jə.ʁje/ | fouilleraient /fuj.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 | fouille /fuj/ | fouilles /fuj/ | fouille /fuj/ | fouillions /fuj.jɔ̃/ | fouilliez /fuj.je/ | fouillent /fuj/ |
| imperfect2 | fouillasse /fu.jas/ | fouillasses /fu.jas/ | fouillât /fu.ja/ | fouillassions /fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ | fouillassiez /fu.ja.sje/ | fouillassent /fu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fouille /fuj/ | — | fouillons /fu.jɔ̃/ | fouillez /fu.je/ | — | |
| 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
- “fouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- frouille, frouillé