cafouiller
French
Etymology
From Picard, from ca- + fouiller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.fu.je/
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Verb
cafouiller
- (intransitive) to play up, be in a mess, fall apart
Conjugation
Conjugation of cafouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cafouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cafouillant /ka.fu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cafouillé /ka.fu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cafouille /ka.fuj/ |
cafouilles /ka.fuj/ |
cafouille /ka.fuj/ |
cafouillons /ka.fu.jɔ̃/ |
cafouillez /ka.fu.je/ |
cafouillent /ka.fuj/ |
| imperfect | cafouillais /ka.fu.jɛ/ |
cafouillais /ka.fu.jɛ/ |
cafouillait /ka.fu.jɛ/ |
cafouillions /ka.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
cafouilliez /ka.fuj.je/ |
cafouillaient /ka.fu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cafouillai /ka.fu.je/ |
cafouillas /ka.fu.ja/ |
cafouilla /ka.fu.ja/ |
cafouillâmes /ka.fu.jam/ |
cafouillâtes /ka.fu.jat/ |
cafouillèrent /ka.fu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | cafouillerai /ka.fuj.ʁe/ |
cafouilleras /ka.fuj.ʁa/ |
cafouillera /ka.fuj.ʁa/ |
cafouillerons /ka.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
cafouillerez /ka.fuj.ʁe/ |
cafouilleront /ka.fuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cafouillerais /ka.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
cafouillerais /ka.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
cafouillerait /ka.fuj.ʁɛ/ |
cafouillerions /ka.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cafouilleriez /ka.fu.jə.ʁje/ |
cafouilleraient /ka.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 | cafouille /ka.fuj/ |
cafouilles /ka.fuj/ |
cafouille /ka.fuj/ |
cafouillions /ka.fuj.jɔ̃/ |
cafouilliez /ka.fuj.je/ |
cafouillent /ka.fuj/ |
| imperfect2 | cafouillasse /ka.fu.jas/ |
cafouillasses /ka.fu.jas/ |
cafouillât /ka.fu.ja/ |
cafouillassions /ka.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
cafouillassiez /ka.fu.ja.sje/ |
cafouillassent /ka.fu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cafouille /ka.fuj/ |
— | cafouillons /ka.fu.jɔ̃/ |
cafouillez /ka.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- cafouillage
- cafouilleux
- cafouillis
Further reading
- “cafouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.