fringuer

French

Etymology

From Middle French fringuer, a denominal of Old French fringue (“garment, clothing”), of non-Latin origin, likely (deprecated template usage) [etyl] , possibly from Frankish *hringila (“ring, loop”), related to Old High German ringila (Modern German Ringel (“ringlet, loop”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛ̃.ɡe/

Verb

fringuer

1. (transitive, reflexive) to tog up

Conjugation

Conjugation of fringuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fringuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fringuant /fʁɛ̃.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fringué /fʁɛ̃.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fringue /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	fringues /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	fringue /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	fringuons /fʁɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	fringuez /fʁɛ̃.ɡe/	fringuent /fʁɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect	fringuais /fʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/	fringuais /fʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/	fringuait /fʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/	fringuions /fʁɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	fringuiez /fʁɛ̃.ɡje/	fringuaient /fʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	fringuai /fʁɛ̃.ɡe/	fringuas /fʁɛ̃.ɡa/	fringua /fʁɛ̃.ɡa/	fringuâmes /fʁɛ̃.ɡam/	fringuâtes /fʁɛ̃.ɡat/	fringuèrent /fʁɛ̃.ɡɛʁ/
	future	fringuerai /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁe/	fringueras /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁa/	fringuera /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁa/	fringuerons /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/	fringuerez /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁe/	fringueront /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fringuerais /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	fringuerais /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	fringuerait /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	fringuerions /fʁɛ̃.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	fringueriez /fʁɛ̃.ɡə.ʁje/	fringueraient /fʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/
(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	fringue /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	fringues /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	fringue /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	fringuions /fʁɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	fringuiez /fʁɛ̃.ɡje/	fringuent /fʁɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect2	fringuasse /fʁɛ̃.ɡas/	fringuasses /fʁɛ̃.ɡas/	fringuât /fʁɛ̃.ɡa/	fringuassions /fʁɛ̃.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	fringuassiez /fʁɛ̃.ɡa.sje/	fringuassent /fʁɛ̃.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fringue /fʁɛ̃ɡ/	—	fringuons /fʁɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	fringuez /fʁɛ̃.ɡe/	—
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).

Further reading

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

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Old French

Verb

fringuer

1. to gambol; to jump