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trifouiller
trifouiller
French
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | trifouiller | avoir trifouillé | |||||
| gerund | en trifouillant | en ayant trifouillé | |||||
| present participle | trifouillant /tʁi.fu.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | trifouillé /tʁi.fu.je/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | trifouillai /tʁi.fu.je/ |
trifouillas /tʁi.fu.ja/ |
trifouilla /tʁi.fu.ja/ |
trifouillâmes /tʁi.fu.jam/ |
trifouillâtes /tʁi.fu.jat/ |
trifouillèrent /tʁi.fu.jɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/ |
trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | trifouille /tʁi.fuj/ |
— | trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/ |
trifouillez /tʁi.fu.je/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||