affabuler

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

affabuler

1. to make up stories, to tell a fable

   Je n’affabule en rien et me borne ici a transcrire ce qu’ils m’ont enseigné.

   I am not making up anything and I am restraining myself to transcribe what they taught me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of affabuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	affabuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	affabulant /a.fa.by.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		affabulé /a.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	affabule /a.fa.byl/	affabules /a.fa.byl/	affabule /a.fa.byl/	affabulons /a.fa.by.lɔ̃/	affabulez /a.fa.by.le/	affabulent /a.fa.byl/
	imperfect	affabulais /a.fa.by.lɛ/	affabulais /a.fa.by.lɛ/	affabulait /a.fa.by.lɛ/	affabulions /a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/	affabuliez /a.fa.by.lje/	affabulaient /a.fa.by.lɛ/
	past historic2	affabulai /a.fa.by.le/	affabulas /a.fa.by.la/	affabula /a.fa.by.la/	affabulâmes /a.fa.by.lam/	affabulâtes /a.fa.by.lat/	affabulèrent /a.fa.by.lɛʁ/
	future	affabulerai /a.fa.byl.ʁe/	affabuleras /a.fa.byl.ʁa/	affabulera /a.fa.byl.ʁa/	affabulerons /a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/	affabulerez /a.fa.byl.ʁe/	affabuleront /a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	affabulerais /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/	affabulerais /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/	affabulerait /a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/	affabulerions /a.fa.by.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	affabuleriez /a.fa.by.lə.ʁje/	affabuleraient /a.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	affabule /a.fa.byl/	affabules /a.fa.byl/	affabule /a.fa.byl/	affabulions /a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/	affabuliez /a.fa.by.lje/	affabulent /a.fa.byl/
	imperfect2	affabulasse /a.fa.by.las/	affabulasses /a.fa.by.las/	affabulât /a.fa.by.la/	affabulassions /a.fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/	affabulassiez /a.fa.by.la.sje/	affabulassent /a.fa.by.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	affabule /a.fa.byl/	—	affabulons /a.fa.by.lɔ̃/	affabulez /a.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: 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).

Related terms

• affabulation
• affabulateur

Further reading

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