cafarder
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
cafarder
- to tattle
Conjugation
Conjugation of cafarder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cafarder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cafardant /ka.faʁ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cafardé /ka.faʁ.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cafarde /ka.faʁd/ |
cafardes /ka.faʁd/ |
cafarde /ka.faʁd/ |
cafardons /ka.faʁ.dɔ̃/ |
cafardez /ka.faʁ.de/ |
cafardent /ka.faʁd/ |
| imperfect | cafardais /ka.faʁ.dɛ/ |
cafardais /ka.faʁ.dɛ/ |
cafardait /ka.faʁ.dɛ/ |
cafardions /ka.faʁ.djɔ̃/ |
cafardiez /ka.faʁ.dje/ |
cafardaient /ka.faʁ.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cafardai /ka.faʁ.de/ |
cafardas /ka.faʁ.da/ |
cafarda /ka.faʁ.da/ |
cafardâmes /ka.faʁ.dam/ |
cafardâtes /ka.faʁ.dat/ |
cafardèrent /ka.faʁ.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | cafarderai /ka.faʁ.də.ʁe/ |
cafarderas /ka.faʁ.də.ʁa/ |
cafardera /ka.faʁ.də.ʁa/ |
cafarderons /ka.faʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ |
cafarderez /ka.faʁ.də.ʁe/ |
cafarderont /ka.faʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cafarderais /ka.faʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
cafarderais /ka.faʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
cafarderait /ka.faʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
cafarderions /ka.faʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cafarderiez /ka.faʁ.də.ʁje/ |
cafarderaient /ka.faʁ.də.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 | cafarde /ka.faʁd/ |
cafardes /ka.faʁd/ |
cafarde /ka.faʁd/ |
cafardions /ka.faʁ.djɔ̃/ |
cafardiez /ka.faʁ.dje/ |
cafardent /ka.faʁd/ |
| imperfect2 | cafardasse /ka.faʁ.das/ |
cafardasses /ka.faʁ.das/ |
cafardât /ka.faʁ.da/ |
cafardassions /ka.faʁ.da.sjɔ̃/ |
cafardassiez /ka.faʁ.da.sje/ |
cafardassent /ka.faʁ.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cafarde /ka.faʁd/ |
— | cafardons /ka.faʁ.dɔ̃/ |
cafardez /ka.faʁ.de/ |
— | |
| 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
- “cafarder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.