affabuler

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ fabuler.

Pronunciation
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Verb

affabuler

  1. to make up stories, to tell a fable
    Je n’affabule en rien et me borne ici a transcrire ce qu’ils m’ont enseigné.
    I am not making up anything and I am restraining myself to transcribe what they taught me.

Conjugation
Conjugation of affabuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple affabuler
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple affabulant
/a.fa.by.lɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle affabulé
/a.fa.by.le/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present affabule
/a.fa.byl/		 affabules
/a.fa.byl/		 affabule
/a.fa.byl/		 affabulons
/a.fa.by.lɔ̃/		 affabulez
/a.fa.by.le/		 affabulent
/a.fa.byl/
imperfect affabulais
/a.fa.by.lɛ/		 affabulais
/a.fa.by.lɛ/		 affabulait
/a.fa.by.lɛ/		 affabulions
/a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/		 affabuliez
/a.fa.by.lje/		 affabulaient
/a.fa.by.lɛ/
past historic2 affabulai
/a.fa.by.le/		 affabulas
/a.fa.by.la/		 affabula
/a.fa.by.la/		 affabulâmes
/a.fa.by.lam/		 affabulâtes
/a.fa.by.lat/		 affabulèrent
/a.fa.by.lɛʁ/
future affabulerai
/a.fa.byl.ʁe/		 affabuleras
/a.fa.byl.ʁa/		 affabulera
/a.fa.byl.ʁa/		 affabulerons
/a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/		 affabulerez
/a.fa.byl.ʁe/		 affabuleront
/a.fa.byl.ʁɔ̃/
conditional affabulerais
/a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/		 affabulerais
/a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/		 affabulerait
/a.fa.byl.ʁɛ/		 affabulerions
/a.fa.by.lə.ʁjɔ̃/		 affabuleriez
/a.fa.by.lə.ʁje/		 affabuleraient
/a.fa.byl.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 affabule
/a.fa.byl/		 affabules
/a.fa.byl/		 affabule
/a.fa.byl/		 affabulions
/a.fa.by.ljɔ̃/		 affabuliez
/a.fa.by.lje/		 affabulent
/a.fa.byl/
imperfect2 affabulasse
/a.fa.by.las/		 affabulasses
/a.fa.by.las/		 affabulât
/a.fa.by.la/		 affabulassions
/a.fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/		 affabulassiez
/a.fa.by.la.sje/		 affabulassent
/a.fa.by.las/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — affabule
/a.fa.byl/		 — affabulons
/a.fa.by.lɔ̃/		 affabulez
/a.fa.by.le/		 —
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).

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