cambrioler

French

Etymology

From cambriole (“room”), from Provençal cambro +‎ -ole, +‎ -er.

Verb

cambrioler

1. to burgle (UK), burglarize (US)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cambrioler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cambrioler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cambriolant /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cambriolé /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cambriole /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	cambrioles /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	cambriole /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	cambriolons /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɔ̃/	cambriolez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.le/	cambriolent /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/
	imperfect	cambriolais /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/	cambriolais /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/	cambriolait /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/	cambriolions /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.ljɔ̃/	cambrioliez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lje/	cambriolaient /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	cambriolai /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.le/	cambriolas /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.la/	cambriola /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.la/	cambriolâmes /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lam/	cambriolâtes /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lat/	cambriolèrent /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	cambriolerai /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁe/	cambrioleras /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁa/	cambriolera /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁa/	cambriolerons /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁɔ̃/	cambriolerez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁe/	cambrioleront /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cambriolerais /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁɛ/	cambriolerais /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁɛ/	cambriolerait /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.ʁɛ/	cambriolerions /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	cambrioleriez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lə.ʁje/	cambrioleraient /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl.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	cambriole /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	cambrioles /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	cambriole /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	cambriolions /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.ljɔ̃/	cambrioliez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lje/	cambriolent /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/
	imperfect2	cambriolasse /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.las/	cambriolasses /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.las/	cambriolât /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.la/	cambriolassions /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	cambriolassiez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.la.sje/	cambriolassent /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cambriole /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl/	—	cambriolons /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɔ̃/	cambriolez /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.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).

Derived terms

• cambriolage
• cambrioleur

Further reading

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