marabouter

French

Etymology

From marabout +‎ -er; compare ensorceler from sorcier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁa.bu.te/

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Verb

marabouter

1. to cast a spell on; to enchant (magically)

   Synonyms: envouter, féticher

   • 2006, Julos Beaucarne (lyrics and music), “Les loups ont des têtes de mouton”:

     Nous sommes six milliards tout en bas
     Maraboutés au nom de quoi
     Au nom du pèse, au nom du fisc
     Et du sacro saint bénéfice

     There are six billion of us right at the bottom
     Bewitched in the name of what
     In the name of dough, in the name of the tax man
     And of sacrosanct profit

Conjugation

Conjugation of marabouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	marabouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maraboutant /ma.ʁa.bu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		marabouté /ma.ʁa.bu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/	maraboutes /ma.ʁa.but/	maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/	maraboutons /ma.ʁa.bu.tɔ̃/	maraboutez /ma.ʁa.bu.te/	maraboutent /ma.ʁa.but/
	imperfect	maraboutais /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/	maraboutais /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/	maraboutait /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/	maraboutions /ma.ʁa.bu.tjɔ̃/	maraboutiez /ma.ʁa.bu.tje/	maraboutaient /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛ/
	past historic2	maraboutai /ma.ʁa.bu.te/	maraboutas /ma.ʁa.bu.ta/	marabouta /ma.ʁa.bu.ta/	maraboutâmes /ma.ʁa.bu.tam/	maraboutâtes /ma.ʁa.bu.tat/	maraboutèrent /ma.ʁa.bu.tɛʁ/
	future	marabouterai /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁe/	marabouteras /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁa/	maraboutera /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁa/	marabouterons /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɔ̃/	marabouterez /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁe/	marabouteront /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	marabouterais /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/	marabouterais /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/	marabouterait /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/	marabouterions /ma.ʁa.bu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	marabouteriez /ma.ʁa.bu.tə.ʁje/	marabouteraient /ma.ʁa.bu.tʁɛ/
(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	maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/	maraboutes /ma.ʁa.but/	maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/	maraboutions /ma.ʁa.bu.tjɔ̃/	maraboutiez /ma.ʁa.bu.tje/	maraboutent /ma.ʁa.but/
	imperfect2	maraboutasse /ma.ʁa.bu.tas/	maraboutasses /ma.ʁa.bu.tas/	maraboutât /ma.ʁa.bu.ta/	maraboutassions /ma.ʁa.bu.ta.sjɔ̃/	maraboutassiez /ma.ʁa.bu.ta.sje/	maraboutassent /ma.ʁa.bu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maraboute /ma.ʁa.but/	—	maraboutons /ma.ʁa.bu.tɔ̃/	maraboutez /ma.ʁa.bu.te/	—
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

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