bidouiller

French

Etymology

bidouille (“idiot”, dialectal word) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bi.du.je/
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Verb

bidouiller

  1. (colloquial, transitive) to fiddle (with)
    Le gouvernement bidouille les chiffres du chômage.
    The government manipulates unemployment statistics.

Conjugation
Conjugation of bidouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple bidouiller
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple bidouillant
/bi.du.jɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle bidouillé
/bi.du.je/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present bidouille
/bi.duj/		 bidouilles
/bi.duj/		 bidouille
/bi.duj/		 bidouillons
/bi.du.jɔ̃/		 bidouillez
/bi.du.je/		 bidouillent
/bi.duj/
imperfect bidouillais
/bi.du.jɛ/		 bidouillais
/bi.du.jɛ/		 bidouillait
/bi.du.jɛ/		 bidouillions
/bi.duj.jɔ̃/		 bidouilliez
/bi.duj.je/		 bidouillaient
/bi.du.jɛ/
past historic2 bidouillai
/bi.du.je/		 bidouillas
/bi.du.ja/		 bidouilla
/bi.du.ja/		 bidouillâmes
/bi.du.jam/		 bidouillâtes
/bi.du.jat/		 bidouillèrent
/bi.du.jɛʁ/
future bidouillerai
/bi.duj.ʁe/		 bidouilleras
/bi.duj.ʁa/		 bidouillera
/bi.duj.ʁa/		 bidouillerons
/bi.duj.ʁɔ̃/		 bidouillerez
/bi.duj.ʁe/		 bidouilleront
/bi.duj.ʁɔ̃/
conditional bidouillerais
/bi.duj.ʁɛ/		 bidouillerais
/bi.duj.ʁɛ/		 bidouillerait
/bi.duj.ʁɛ/		 bidouillerions
/bi.du.jə.ʁjɔ̃/		 bidouilleriez
/bi.du.jə.ʁje/		 bidouilleraient
/bi.duj.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 bidouille
/bi.duj/		 bidouilles
/bi.duj/		 bidouille
/bi.duj/		 bidouillions
/bi.duj.jɔ̃/		 bidouilliez
/bi.duj.je/		 bidouillent
/bi.duj/
imperfect2 bidouillasse
/bi.du.jas/		 bidouillasses
/bi.du.jas/		 bidouillât
/bi.du.ja/		 bidouillassions
/bi.du.ja.sjɔ̃/		 bidouillassiez
/bi.du.ja.sje/		 bidouillassent
/bi.du.jas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — bidouille
/bi.duj/		 — bidouillons
/bi.du.jɔ̃/		 bidouillez
/bi.du.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).

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