magouiller
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
magouiller
- (informal) to wangle, to achieve by contrivance or trickery
Conjugation
Conjugation of magouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | magouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | magouillant /ma.ɡu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | magouillé /ma.ɡu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | magouille /ma.ɡuj/ | magouilles /ma.ɡuj/ | magouille /ma.ɡuj/ | magouillons /ma.ɡu.jɔ̃/ | magouillez /ma.ɡu.je/ | magouillent /ma.ɡuj/ |
| imperfect | magouillais /ma.ɡu.jɛ/ | magouillais /ma.ɡu.jɛ/ | magouillait /ma.ɡu.jɛ/ | magouillions /ma.ɡuj.jɔ̃/ | magouilliez /ma.ɡuj.je/ | magouillaient /ma.ɡu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | magouillai /ma.ɡu.je/ | magouillas /ma.ɡu.ja/ | magouilla /ma.ɡu.ja/ | magouillâmes /ma.ɡu.jam/ | magouillâtes /ma.ɡu.jat/ | magouillèrent /ma.ɡu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | magouillerai /ma.ɡuj.ʁe/ | magouilleras /ma.ɡuj.ʁa/ | magouillera /ma.ɡuj.ʁa/ | magouillerons /ma.ɡuj.ʁɔ̃/ | magouillerez /ma.ɡuj.ʁe/ | magouilleront /ma.ɡuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | magouillerais /ma.ɡuj.ʁɛ/ | magouillerais /ma.ɡuj.ʁɛ/ | magouillerait /ma.ɡuj.ʁɛ/ | magouillerions /ma.ɡu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | magouilleriez /ma.ɡu.jə.ʁje/ | magouilleraient /ma.ɡuj.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 | magouille /ma.ɡuj/ | magouilles /ma.ɡuj/ | magouille /ma.ɡuj/ | magouillions /ma.ɡuj.jɔ̃/ | magouilliez /ma.ɡuj.je/ | magouillent /ma.ɡuj/ |
| imperfect2 | magouillasse /ma.ɡu.jas/ | magouillasses /ma.ɡu.jas/ | magouillât /ma.ɡu.ja/ | magouillassions /ma.ɡu.ja.sjɔ̃/ | magouillassiez /ma.ɡu.ja.sje/ | magouillassent /ma.ɡu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | magouille /ma.ɡuj/ | — | magouillons /ma.ɡu.jɔ̃/ | magouillez /ma.ɡu.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- magouille
- magouillage
- magouilleur
Further reading
- “magouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.