bafouiller

French

Etymology

Uncertain; probably borrowed from Franco-Provençal (Lyonnais) barfouiller, from a cross of barbouiller and fouiller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.fu.je/

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Verb

bafouiller

1. to babble, splutter, stammer

Conjugation

Conjugation of bafouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bafouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bafouillant /ba.fu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bafouillé /ba.fu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bafouille /ba.fuj/	bafouilles /ba.fuj/	bafouille /ba.fuj/	bafouillons /ba.fu.jɔ̃/	bafouillez /ba.fu.je/	bafouillent /ba.fuj/
	imperfect	bafouillais /ba.fu.jɛ/	bafouillais /ba.fu.jɛ/	bafouillait /ba.fu.jɛ/	bafouillions /ba.fuj.jɔ̃/	bafouilliez /ba.fuj.je/	bafouillaient /ba.fu.jɛ/
	past historic2	bafouillai /ba.fu.je/	bafouillas /ba.fu.ja/	bafouilla /ba.fu.ja/	bafouillâmes /ba.fu.jam/	bafouillâtes /ba.fu.jat/	bafouillèrent /ba.fu.jɛʁ/
	future	bafouillerai /ba.fuj.ʁe/	bafouilleras /ba.fuj.ʁa/	bafouillera /ba.fuj.ʁa/	bafouillerons /ba.fuj.ʁɔ̃/	bafouillerez /ba.fuj.ʁe/	bafouilleront /ba.fuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bafouillerais /ba.fuj.ʁɛ/	bafouillerais /ba.fuj.ʁɛ/	bafouillerait /ba.fuj.ʁɛ/	bafouillerions /ba.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	bafouilleriez /ba.fu.jə.ʁje/	bafouilleraient /ba.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	bafouille /ba.fuj/	bafouilles /ba.fuj/	bafouille /ba.fuj/	bafouillions /ba.fuj.jɔ̃/	bafouilliez /ba.fuj.je/	bafouillent /ba.fuj/
	imperfect2	bafouillasse /ba.fu.jas/	bafouillasses /ba.fu.jas/	bafouillât /ba.fu.ja/	bafouillassions /ba.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/	bafouillassiez /ba.fu.ja.sje/	bafouillassent /ba.fu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bafouille /ba.fuj/	—	bafouillons /ba.fu.jɔ̃/	bafouillez /ba.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “bafouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.