fourrer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, corresponding to feurre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁe/

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Verb

fourrer

1. (transitive, colloquial) to shove, stick, stuff (dans in something)
2. (transitive) to stuff (a turkey etc.); to fill (a cake)
3. (transitive, vulgar, slang) to fuck, to shaft, to screw
   • 1974, Bertrand Blier, Les Valseuses, spoken by Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere):

     Mais si je peux plus fourrer? Plus jamais? Faut qu’elle voie, la salope!

     But what if I can't fuck? Ever again? She has to see this, that bitch!

Conjugation

Conjugation of fourrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fourrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fourrant /fu.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fourré /fu.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fourre /fuʁ/	fourres /fuʁ/	fourre /fuʁ/	fourrons /fu.ʁɔ̃/	fourrez /fu.ʁe/	fourrent /fuʁ/
	imperfect	fourrais /fu.ʁɛ/	fourrais /fu.ʁɛ/	fourrait /fu.ʁɛ/	fourrions /fu.ʁjɔ̃/	fourriez /fu.ʁje/	fourraient /fu.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	fourrai /fu.ʁe/	fourras /fu.ʁa/	fourra /fu.ʁa/	fourrâmes /fu.ʁam/	fourrâtes /fu.ʁat/	fourrèrent /fu.ʁɛʁ/
	future	fourrerai /fu.ʁə.ʁe/	fourreras /fu.ʁə.ʁa/	fourrera /fu.ʁə.ʁa/	fourrerons /fu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	fourrerez /fu.ʁə.ʁe/	fourreront /fu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fourrerais /fu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fourrerais /fu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fourrerait /fu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fourrerions /fu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	fourreriez /fu.ʁə.ʁje/	fourreraient /fu.ʁə.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	fourre /fuʁ/	fourres /fuʁ/	fourre /fuʁ/	fourrions /fu.ʁjɔ̃/	fourriez /fu.ʁje/	fourrent /fuʁ/
	imperfect2	fourrasse /fu.ʁas/	fourrasses /fu.ʁas/	fourrât /fu.ʁa/	fourrassions /fu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	fourrassiez /fu.ʁa.sje/	fourrassent /fu.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fourre /fuʁ/	—	fourrons /fu.ʁɔ̃/	fourrez /fu.ʁe/	—
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

• coup fourré
• fourrer dans le même sac
• fourrer les pieds
• fourrer son nez
• fourre-tout
• se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil

Further reading

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