fabuler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fābulārī. Doublet of hâbler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.by.le/
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Verb
fabuler
- (intransitive, rare) to fantasize
Usage notes
The prefixed verb affabuler is more common.
Conjugation
Conjugation of fabuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fabuler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fabulant /fa.by.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fabulé /fa.by.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fabule /fa.byl/ |
fabules /fa.byl/ |
fabule /fa.byl/ |
fabulons /fa.by.lɔ̃/ |
fabulez /fa.by.le/ |
fabulent /fa.byl/ |
| imperfect | fabulais /fa.by.lɛ/ |
fabulais /fa.by.lɛ/ |
fabulait /fa.by.lɛ/ |
fabulions /fa.by.ljɔ̃/ |
fabuliez /fa.by.lje/ |
fabulaient /fa.by.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fabulai /fa.by.le/ |
fabulas /fa.by.la/ |
fabula /fa.by.la/ |
fabulâmes /fa.by.lam/ |
fabulâtes /fa.by.lat/ |
fabulèrent /fa.by.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | fabulerai /fa.byl.ʁe/ |
fabuleras /fa.byl.ʁa/ |
fabulera /fa.byl.ʁa/ |
fabulerons /fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/ |
fabulerez /fa.byl.ʁe/ |
fabuleront /fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fabulerais /fa.byl.ʁɛ/ |
fabulerais /fa.byl.ʁɛ/ |
fabulerait /fa.byl.ʁɛ/ |
fabulerions /fa.by.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fabuleriez /fa.by.lə.ʁje/ |
fabuleraient /fa.byl.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 | fabule /fa.byl/ |
fabules /fa.byl/ |
fabule /fa.byl/ |
fabulions /fa.by.ljɔ̃/ |
fabuliez /fa.by.lje/ |
fabulent /fa.byl/ |
| imperfect2 | fabulasse /fa.by.las/ |
fabulasses /fa.by.las/ |
fabulât /fa.by.la/ |
fabulassions /fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/ |
fabulassiez /fa.by.la.sje/ |
fabulassent /fa.by.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fabule /fa.byl/ |
— | fabulons /fa.by.lɔ̃/ |
fabulez /fa.by.le/ |
— | |
| 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
Related terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: fabuleren
Further reading
- “fabuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
fābuler
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of fābulor