marabouter
French
Etymology
From marabout + -er; compare sorcier - ensorceler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ʁa.bu.te/
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Verb
marabouter
- to cast a spell; to enchant (magically)
- Synonyms: envouter, féticher
- Julos Beaucarne, Les loups ont des têtes de moutons
- Nous sommes six milliards tout en bas
Maraboutés au nom de quoi
Au nom du pèse, au nom du fisc
Et du sacro saint bénéfice.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Conjugation
Conjugation of marabouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | marabouter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | maraboutant /ma.ʁa.bu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | marabouté /ma.ʁa.bu.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/ | maraboutes /ma.ʁa.but/ | maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/ | maraboutons /ma.ʁa.bu.tɔ̃/ | maraboutez /ma.ʁa.bu.te/ | maraboutent /ma.ʁa.but/ |
| imperfect | maraboutais /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/ | maraboutais /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/ | maraboutait /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/ | maraboutions /ma.ʁa.bu.tjɔ̃/ | maraboutiez /ma.ʁa.bu.tje/ | maraboutaient /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | maraboutai /ma.ʁa.bu.te/ | maraboutas /ma.ʁa.bu.ta/ | marabouta /ma.ʁa.bu.ta/ | maraboutâmes /ma.ʁa.bu.tam/ | maraboutâtes /ma.ʁa.bu.tat/ | maraboutèrent /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | marabouterai /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁe/ | marabouteras /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁa/ | maraboutera /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁa/ | marabouterons /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɔ̃/ | marabouterez /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁe/ | marabouteront /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | marabouterais /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/ | marabouterais /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/ | marabouterait /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/ | marabouterions /ma.ʁa.bu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | marabouteriez /ma.ʁa.bu.tə.ʁje/ | marabouteraient /ma.ʁa.bu.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 | maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/ | maraboutes /ma.ʁa.but/ | maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/ | maraboutions /ma.ʁa.bu.tjɔ̃/ | maraboutiez /ma.ʁa.bu.tje/ | maraboutent /ma.ʁa.but/ |
| imperfect2 | maraboutasse /ma.ʁa.bu.tas/ | maraboutasses /ma.ʁa.bu.tas/ | maraboutât /ma.ʁa.bu.ta/ | maraboutassions /ma.ʁa.bu.ta.sjɔ̃/ | maraboutassiez /ma.ʁa.bu.ta.sje/ | maraboutassent /ma.ʁa.bu.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/ | — | maraboutons /ma.ʁa.bu.tɔ̃/ | maraboutez /ma.ʁa.bu.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
- “marabouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.