camoufler

French

Etymology

Most likely from camouflet, a borrowing from Italian camuffare (“to hide, to disguise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mu.fle/

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Verb

camoufler

1. to camouflage (hide, disguise)

Conjugation

Conjugation of camoufler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	camoufler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	camouflant /ka.mu.flɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		camouflé /ka.mu.fle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	camoufle /ka.mufl/	camoufles /ka.mufl/	camoufle /ka.mufl/	camouflons /ka.mu.flɔ̃/	camouflez /ka.mu.fle/	camouflent /ka.mufl/
	imperfect	camouflais /ka.mu.flɛ/	camouflais /ka.mu.flɛ/	camouflait /ka.mu.flɛ/	camouflions /ka.mu.fli.jɔ̃/	camoufliez /ka.mu.fli.je/	camouflaient /ka.mu.flɛ/
	past historic2	camouflai /ka.mu.fle/	camouflas /ka.mu.fla/	camoufla /ka.mu.fla/	camouflâmes /ka.mu.flam/	camouflâtes /ka.mu.flat/	camouflèrent /ka.mu.flɛʁ/
	future	camouflerai /ka.mu.flə.ʁe/	camoufleras /ka.mu.flə.ʁa/	camouflera /ka.mu.flə.ʁa/	camouflerons /ka.mu.flə.ʁɔ̃/	camouflerez /ka.mu.flə.ʁe/	camoufleront /ka.mu.flə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	camouflerais /ka.mu.flə.ʁɛ/	camouflerais /ka.mu.flə.ʁɛ/	camouflerait /ka.mu.flə.ʁɛ/	camouflerions /ka.mu.flə.ʁjɔ̃/	camoufleriez /ka.mu.flə.ʁje/	camoufleraient /ka.mu.flə.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	camoufle /ka.mufl/	camoufles /ka.mufl/	camoufle /ka.mufl/	camouflions /ka.mu.fli.jɔ̃/	camoufliez /ka.mu.fli.je/	camouflent /ka.mufl/
	imperfect2	camouflasse /ka.mu.flas/	camouflasses /ka.mu.flas/	camouflât /ka.mu.fla/	camouflassions /ka.mu.fla.sjɔ̃/	camouflassiez /ka.mu.fla.sje/	camouflassent /ka.mu.flas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	camoufle /ka.mufl/	—	camouflons /ka.mu.flɔ̃/	camouflez /ka.mu.fle/	—
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

• camouflage

Descendants

• → Turkish: kamufle (via past participle)

Further reading

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