fureter
French
Etymology
From furet + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fyʁ.te/
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Verb
fureter
- to ferret (around, about); to rummage
- (Internet slang, France) to browse (a website)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il furète rather than *il furete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of fureter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fureter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | furetant /fyʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fureté /fyʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ | furètes /fy.ʁɛt/ | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ | furetons /fyʁ.tɔ̃/ | furetez /fyʁ.te/ | furètent /fy.ʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | furetais /fyʁ.tɛ/ | furetais /fyʁ.tɛ/ | furetait /fyʁ.tɛ/ | furetions /fy.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ | furetiez /fy.ʁə.tje/ | furetaient /fyʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | furetai /fyʁ.te/ | furetas /fyʁ.ta/ | fureta /fyʁ.ta/ | furetâmes /fyʁ.tam/ | furetâtes /fyʁ.tat/ | furetèrent /fyʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | furèterai /fy.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁe/ | furèteras /fy.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁa/ | furètera /fy.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁa/ | furèterons /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | furèterez /fy.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁe/ | furèteront /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | furèterais /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | furèterais /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | furèterait /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | furèterions /fy.ʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fy.ʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | furèteriez /fy.ʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /fy.ʁe.tə.ʁje/ | furèteraient /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ | furètes /fy.ʁɛt/ | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ | furetions /fy.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ | furetiez /fy.ʁə.tje/ | furètent /fy.ʁɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | furetasse /fyʁ.tas/ | furetasses /fyʁ.tas/ | furetât /fyʁ.ta/ | furetassions /fyʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | furetassiez /fyʁ.ta.sje/ | furetassent /fyʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ | — | furetons /fyʁ.tɔ̃/ | furetez /fyʁ.te/ | — | |
| 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
- “fureter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- réfuter