malfaire
French
Etymology
mal + faire, or from Latin malefacere, present active infinitive of malefaciō. Compare Italian malfare.
Pronunciation
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Verb
malfaire
- (archaic) do wrong
Conjugation
Conjugation of malfaire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | malfaire | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | malfaisant /mal.fə.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | malfait /mal.fɛ/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | malfais /mal.fɛ/ | malfais /mal.fɛ/ | malfait /mal.fɛ/ | malfaisons /mal.fə.zɔ̃/ | malfaites /mal.fɛt/ | malfont /mal.fɔ̃/ |
imperfect | malfaisais /mal.fə.zɛ/ | malfaisais /mal.fə.zɛ/ | malfaisait /mal.fə.zɛ/ | malfaisions /mal.fə.zjɔ̃/ | malfaisiez /mal.fə.zje/ | malfaisaient /mal.fə.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | malfis /mal.fi/ | malfis /mal.fi/ | malfit /mal.fi/ | malfîmes /mal.fim/ | malfîtes /mal.fit/ | malfirent /mal.fiʁ/ | |
future | malferai /mal.fə.ʁe/ | malferas /mal.fə.ʁa/ | malfera /mal.fə.ʁa/ | malferons /mal.fə.ʁɔ̃/ | malferez /mal.fə.ʁe/ | malferont /mal.fə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | malferais /mal.fə.ʁɛ/ | malferais /mal.fə.ʁɛ/ | malferait /mal.fə.ʁɛ/ | malferions /mal.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ | malferiez /mal.fə.ʁje/ | malferaient /mal.fə.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 | malfasse /mal.fas/ | malfasses /mal.fas/ | malfasse /mal.fas/ | malfassions /mal.fa.sjɔ̃/ | malfassiez /mal.fa.sje/ | malfassent /mal.fas/ |
imperfect2 | malfisse /mal.fis/ | malfisses /mal.fis/ | malfît /mal.fi/ | malfissions /mal.fi.sjɔ̃/ | malfissiez /mal.fi.sje/ | malfissent /mal.fis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | malfais /mal.fɛ/ | — | malfaisons /mal.fə.zɔ̃/ | malfaites /mal.fɛt/ | — | |
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
- malfaiteur
See also
- méfaire
Further reading
- “malfaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.