fourrer
French
Etymology
Old French, corresponding to feurre + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu.ʁe/
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Verb
fourrer
- (transitive, colloquial) to shove, stick, stuff (dans in something)
- (transitive) to stuff (a turkey etc.); to fill (a cake)
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) to fuck, to shaft, to screw
- 1974, Bertrand Blier, Les Valseuses, spoken by Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere):
- Mais si je peux plus fourrer? Plus jamais? Faut qu'elle voie la salope!
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of fourrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fourrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fourrant /fu.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fourré /fu.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fourre /fuʁ/ | fourres /fuʁ/ | fourre /fuʁ/ | fourrons /fu.ʁɔ̃/ | fourrez /fu.ʁe/ | fourrent /fuʁ/ |
| imperfect | fourrais /fu.ʁɛ/ | fourrais /fu.ʁɛ/ | fourrait /fu.ʁɛ/ | fourrions /fu.ʁjɔ̃/ | fourriez /fu.ʁje/ | fourraient /fu.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fourrai /fu.ʁe/ | fourras /fu.ʁa/ | fourra /fu.ʁa/ | fourrâmes /fu.ʁam/ | fourrâtes /fu.ʁat/ | fourrèrent /fu.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | fourrerai /fu.ʁə.ʁe/ | fourreras /fu.ʁə.ʁa/ | fourrera /fu.ʁə.ʁa/ | fourrerons /fu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | fourrerez /fu.ʁə.ʁe/ | fourreront /fu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fourrerais /fu.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | fourrerais /fu.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | fourrerait /fu.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | fourrerions /fu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fourreriez /fu.ʁə.ʁje/ | fourreraient /fu.ʁə.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 | fourre /fuʁ/ | fourres /fuʁ/ | fourre /fuʁ/ | fourrions /fu.ʁjɔ̃/ | fourriez /fu.ʁje/ | fourrent /fuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | fourrasse /fu.ʁas/ | fourrasses /fu.ʁas/ | fourrât /fu.ʁa/ | fourrassions /fu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | fourrassiez /fu.ʁa.sje/ | fourrassent /fu.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fourre /fuʁ/ | — | fourrons /fu.ʁɔ̃/ | fourrez /fu.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- coup fourré
- fourrer dans le même sac
- fourrer les pieds
- fourrer son nez
- se fourrer le doigt dans l'œil
Further reading
- “fourrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.