trifouiller

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.fu.je/

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Verb

trifouiller

1. (colloquial) to tamper (with), tinker
2. (colloquial, intransitive) to rummage, rummage around (+dans = in)
3. (colloquial, intransitive) to dabble

   il trifouille dans l’art. ― he dabbles in art.

Conjugation

Conjugation of trifouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trifouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trifouillant /tʁi.fu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trifouillé /tʁi.fu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trifouille /tʁi.fuj/	trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/	trifouille /tʁi.fuj/	trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/	trifouillez /tʁi.fu.je/	trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/
	imperfect	trifouillais /tʁi.fu.jɛ/	trifouillais /tʁi.fu.jɛ/	trifouillait /tʁi.fu.jɛ/	trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/	trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/	trifouillaient /tʁi.fu.jɛ/
	past historic2	trifouillai /tʁi.fu.je/	trifouillas /tʁi.fu.ja/	trifouilla /tʁi.fu.ja/	trifouillâmes /tʁi.fu.jam/	trifouillâtes /tʁi.fu.jat/	trifouillèrent /tʁi.fu.jɛʁ/
	future	trifouillerai /tʁi.fuj.ʁe/	trifouilleras /tʁi.fuj.ʁa/	trifouillera /tʁi.fuj.ʁa/	trifouillerons /tʁi.fuj.ʁɔ̃/	trifouillerez /tʁi.fuj.ʁe/	trifouilleront /tʁi.fuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trifouillerais /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/	trifouillerais /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/	trifouillerait /tʁi.fuj.ʁɛ/	trifouillerions /tʁi.fu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	trifouilleriez /tʁi.fu.jə.ʁje/	trifouilleraient /tʁi.fuj.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	trifouille /tʁi.fuj/	trifouilles /tʁi.fuj/	trifouille /tʁi.fuj/	trifouillions /tʁi.fuj.jɔ̃/	trifouilliez /tʁi.fuj.je/	trifouillent /tʁi.fuj/
	imperfect2	trifouillasse /tʁi.fu.jas/	trifouillasses /tʁi.fu.jas/	trifouillât /tʁi.fu.ja/	trifouillassions /tʁi.fu.ja.sjɔ̃/	trifouillassiez /tʁi.fu.ja.sje/	trifouillassent /tʁi.fu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trifouille /tʁi.fuj/	—	trifouillons /tʁi.fu.jɔ̃/	trifouillez /tʁi.fu.je/	—
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

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