fouiner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
fouiner
- (informal) to furrow, ferret, snoop around
Conjugation
Conjugation of fouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fouiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fouinant /fwi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fouiné /fwi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fouine /fwin/ |
fouines /fwin/ |
fouine /fwin/ |
fouinons /fwi.nɔ̃/ |
fouinez /fwi.ne/ |
fouinent /fwin/ |
| imperfect | fouinais /fwi.nɛ/ |
fouinais /fwi.nɛ/ |
fouinait /fwi.nɛ/ |
fouinions /fwi.njɔ̃/ |
fouiniez /fwi.nje/ |
fouinaient /fwi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fouinai /fwi.ne/ |
fouinas /fwi.na/ |
fouina /fwi.na/ |
fouinâmes /fwi.nam/ |
fouinâtes /fwi.nat/ |
fouinèrent /fwi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | fouinerai /fwin.ʁe/ |
fouineras /fwin.ʁa/ |
fouinera /fwin.ʁa/ |
fouinerons /fwin.ʁɔ̃/ |
fouinerez /fwin.ʁe/ |
fouineront /fwin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fouinerais /fwin.ʁɛ/ |
fouinerais /fwin.ʁɛ/ |
fouinerait /fwin.ʁɛ/ |
fouinerions /fwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fouineriez /fwi.nə.ʁje/ |
fouineraient /fwin.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 | fouine /fwin/ |
fouines /fwin/ |
fouine /fwin/ |
fouinions /fwi.njɔ̃/ |
fouiniez /fwi.nje/ |
fouinent /fwin/ |
| imperfect2 | fouinasse /fwi.nas/ |
fouinasses /fwi.nas/ |
fouinât /fwi.na/ |
fouinassions /fwi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
fouinassiez /fwi.na.sje/ |
fouinassent /fwi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fouine /fwin/ |
— | fouinons /fwi.nɔ̃/ |
fouinez /fwi.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “fouiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.