fabriquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fabricāre, present active infinitive of fabricō. Doublet of forger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.bʁi.ke/
Audio (France, Paris): (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: fabriquai, fabriqué, fabriquée, fabriquées, fabriqués, fabriquez
Verb
fabriquer
- to make; to build ; to manufacture
- to fabricate
- (informal, colloquial) to be up to, a more polite than ficher, less polite than faire
- Qu’est-ce que tu fabriques ? ― What are you doing?
Conjugation
Conjugation of fabriquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | fabriquer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | fabriquant /fa.bʁi.kɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | fabriqué /fa.bʁi.ke/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ |
fabriques /fa.bʁik/ |
fabrique /fa.bʁik/ |
fabriquons /fa.bʁi.kɔ̃/ |
fabriquez /fa.bʁi.ke/ |
fabriquent /fa.bʁik/ |
imperfect | fabriquais /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ |
fabriquais /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ |
fabriquait /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ |
fabriquions /fa.bʁi.kjɔ̃/ |
fabriquiez /fa.bʁi.kje/ |
fabriquaient /fa.bʁi.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | fabriquai /fa.bʁi.ke/ |
fabriquas /fa.bʁi.ka/ |
fabriqua /fa.bʁi.ka/ |
fabriquâmes /fa.bʁi.kam/ |
fabriquâtes /fa.bʁi.kat/ |
fabriquèrent /fa.bʁi.kɛʁ/ | |
future | fabriquerai /fa.bʁi.kʁe/ |
fabriqueras /fa.bʁi.kʁa/ |
fabriquera /fa.bʁi.kʁa/ |
fabriquerons /fa.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/ |
fabriquerez /fa.bʁi.kʁe/ |
fabriqueront /fa.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | fabriquerais /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ |
fabriquerais /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ |
fabriquerait /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ |
fabriquerions /fa.bʁi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fabriqueriez /fa.bʁi.kə.ʁje/ |
fabriqueraient /fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | |
(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 | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ |
fabriques /fa.bʁik/ |
fabrique /fa.bʁik/ |
fabriquions /fa.bʁi.kjɔ̃/ |
fabriquiez /fa.bʁi.kje/ |
fabriquent /fa.bʁik/ |
imperfect2 | fabriquasse /fa.bʁi.kas/ |
fabriquasses /fa.bʁi.kas/ |
fabriquât /fa.bʁi.ka/ |
fabriquassions /fa.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
fabriquassiez /fa.bʁi.ka.sje/ |
fabriquassent /fa.bʁi.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | fabrique /fa.bʁik/ |
— | fabriquons /fa.bʁi.kɔ̃/ |
fabriquez /fa.bʁi.ke/ |
— | |
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). |
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