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fouiller
fouiller
French
Verb
fouiller
- (transitive) to search (place, thing)
- 1873: Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude. (Zola, Le Ventre de Paris)
- He searched his memories, remembered not a single hour of plenty.
- 1873: Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude. (Zola, Le Ventre de Paris)
- (transitive) to search, frisk (person)
- (transitive) to go into, investigate (question, issue)
- (intransitive) to rummage, delve (dans in)
- (reflexive) to go through one's pockets
- (transitive) to dig
Conjugation
Conjugation of fouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | fouiller | avoir fouillé | |||||
| gerund | en fouillant | en ayant fouillé | |||||
| present participle | fouillant /fu.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | fouillé /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 | fouille /fuj/ |
fouilles /fuj/ |
fouille /fuj/ |
fouillons /fu.jɔ̃/ |
fouillez /fu.je/ |
fouillent /fuj/ |
| imperfect | fouillais /fu.jɛ/ |
fouillais /fu.jɛ/ |
fouillait /fu.jɛ/ |
fouillions /fuj.jɔ̃/ |
fouilliez /fuj.je/ |
fouillaient /fu.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | fouillai /fu.je/ |
fouillas /fu.ja/ |
fouilla /fu.ja/ |
fouillâmes /fu.jam/ |
fouillâtes /fu.jat/ |
fouillèrent /fu.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | fouillerai /fuj.ʁe/ |
fouilleras /fuj.ʁa/ |
fouillera /fuj.ʁa/ |
fouillerons /fuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
fouillerez /fuj.ʁe/ |
fouilleront /fuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | fouillerais /fuj.ʁɛ/ |
fouillerais /fuj.ʁɛ/ |
fouillerait /fuj.ʁɛ/ |
fouillerions /fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fouilleriez /fu.jə.ʁje/ |
fouilleraient /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 | fouille /fuj/ |
fouilles /fuj/ |
fouille /fuj/ |
fouillions /fuj.jɔ̃/ |
fouilliez /fuj.je/ |
fouillent /fuj/ |
| imperfect1 |
fouillasse /fu.jas/ |
fouillasses /fu.jas/ |
fouillât /fu.ja/ |
fouillassions /fu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
fouillassiez /fu.ja.sje/ |
fouillassent /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 | – | |
| — | fouille /fuj/ |
— | fouillons /fu.jɔ̃/ |
fouillez /fu.je/ |
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