ébouriffer

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.bu.ʁi.fe/

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Verb

ébouriffer

1. to ruffle, mess up (someone's hair)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébouriffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébouriffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébouriffant /e.bu.ʁi.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébouriffé /e.bu.ʁi.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébouriffe /e.bu.ʁif/	ébouriffes /e.bu.ʁif/	ébouriffe /e.bu.ʁif/	ébouriffons /e.bu.ʁi.fɔ̃/	ébouriffez /e.bu.ʁi.fe/	ébouriffent /e.bu.ʁif/
	imperfect	ébouriffais /e.bu.ʁi.fɛ/	ébouriffais /e.bu.ʁi.fɛ/	ébouriffait /e.bu.ʁi.fɛ/	ébouriffions /e.bu.ʁi.fjɔ̃/	ébouriffiez /e.bu.ʁi.fje/	ébouriffaient /e.bu.ʁi.fɛ/
	past historic2	ébouriffai /e.bu.ʁi.fe/	ébouriffas /e.bu.ʁi.fa/	ébouriffa /e.bu.ʁi.fa/	ébouriffâmes /e.bu.ʁi.fam/	ébouriffâtes /e.bu.ʁi.fat/	ébouriffèrent /e.bu.ʁi.fɛʁ/
	future	ébourifferai /e.bu.ʁi.fʁe/	ébourifferas /e.bu.ʁi.fʁa/	ébouriffera /e.bu.ʁi.fʁa/	ébourifferons /e.bu.ʁi.fʁɔ̃/	ébourifferez /e.bu.ʁi.fʁe/	ébourifferont /e.bu.ʁi.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébourifferais /e.bu.ʁi.fʁɛ/	ébourifferais /e.bu.ʁi.fʁɛ/	ébourifferait /e.bu.ʁi.fʁɛ/	ébourifferions /e.bu.ʁi.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	ébourifferiez /e.bu.ʁi.fə.ʁje/	ébourifferaient /e.bu.ʁi.fʁɛ/
(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	ébouriffe /e.bu.ʁif/	ébouriffes /e.bu.ʁif/	ébouriffe /e.bu.ʁif/	ébouriffions /e.bu.ʁi.fjɔ̃/	ébouriffiez /e.bu.ʁi.fje/	ébouriffent /e.bu.ʁif/
	imperfect2	ébouriffasse /e.bu.ʁi.fas/	ébouriffasses /e.bu.ʁi.fas/	ébouriffât /e.bu.ʁi.fa/	ébouriffassions /e.bu.ʁi.fa.sjɔ̃/	ébouriffassiez /e.bu.ʁi.fa.sje/	ébouriffassent /e.bu.ʁi.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébouriffe /e.bu.ʁif/	—	ébouriffons /e.bu.ʁi.fɔ̃/	ébouriffez /e.bu.ʁi.fe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ébouriffé

Descendants

• → Catalan: esborrifar

Further reading

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