trifouiller
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁi.fu.je/
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Verb
trifouiller
- (colloquial) to tamper (with), tinker
- (colloquial, intransitive) to rummage, rummage around (+dans = in)
- (colloquial, intransitive) to dabble
- il trifouille dans l'art. ― he dabbles in art.
Conjugation
Conjugation of trifouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trifouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trifouillant /tʁi.fu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trifouillé /tʁi.fu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ | trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/ | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ | trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/ | trifouillez /tʁi.fu.je/ | trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/ |
| imperfect | trifouillais /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ | trifouillais /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ | trifouillait /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ | trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/ | trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/ | trifouillaient /tʁi.fu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trifouillai /tʁi.fu.je/ | trifouillas /tʁi.fu.ja/ | trifouilla /tʁi.fu.ja/ | trifouillâmes /tʁi.fu.jam/ | trifouillâtes /tʁi.fu.jat/ | trifouillèrent /tʁi.fu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | trifouillerai /tʁi.fuj.ʁe/ | trifouilleras /tʁi.fuj.ʁa/ | trifouillera /tʁi.fuj.ʁa/ | trifouillerons /tʁi.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | trifouillerez /tʁi.fuj.ʁe/ | trifouilleront /tʁi.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trifouillerais /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/ | trifouillerais /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/ | trifouillerait /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/ | trifouillerions /tʁi.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | trifouilleriez /tʁi.fu.jə.ʁje/ | trifouilleraient /tʁi.fuj.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 | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ | trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/ | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ | trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/ | trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/ | trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/ |
| imperfect2 | trifouillasse /tʁi.fu.jas/ | trifouillasses /tʁi.fu.jas/ | trifouillât /tʁi.fu.ja/ | trifouillassions /tʁi.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ | trifouillassiez /tʁi.fu.ja.sje/ | trifouillassent /tʁi.fu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ | — | trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/ | trifouillez /tʁi.fu.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “trifouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.