fourbir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fourbir, from Old French forbir, from Frankish *furbēn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuʁ.biʁ/
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Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of fourbir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fourbir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fourbissant /fuʁ.bi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fourbi /fuʁ.bi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fourbis /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbis /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbit /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbissons /fuʁ.bi.sɔ̃/ |
fourbissez /fuʁ.bi.se/ |
fourbissent /fuʁ.bis/ |
| imperfect | fourbissais /fuʁ.bi.sɛ/ |
fourbissais /fuʁ.bi.sɛ/ |
fourbissait /fuʁ.bi.sɛ/ |
fourbissions /fuʁ.bi.sjɔ̃/ |
fourbissiez /fuʁ.bi.sje/ |
fourbissaient /fuʁ.bi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fourbis /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbis /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbit /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbîmes /fuʁ.bim/ |
fourbîtes /fuʁ.bit/ |
fourbirent /fuʁ.biʁ/ | |
| future | fourbirai /fuʁ.bi.ʁe/ |
fourbiras /fuʁ.bi.ʁa/ |
fourbira /fuʁ.bi.ʁa/ |
fourbirons /fuʁ.bi.ʁɔ̃/ |
fourbirez /fuʁ.bi.ʁe/ |
fourbiront /fuʁ.bi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fourbirais /fuʁ.bi.ʁɛ/ |
fourbirais /fuʁ.bi.ʁɛ/ |
fourbirait /fuʁ.bi.ʁɛ/ |
fourbirions /fuʁ.bi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fourbiriez /fuʁ.bi.ʁje/ |
fourbiraient /fuʁ.bi.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 | fourbisse /fuʁ.bis/ |
fourbisses /fuʁ.bis/ |
fourbisse /fuʁ.bis/ |
fourbissions /fuʁ.bi.sjɔ̃/ |
fourbissiez /fuʁ.bi.sje/ |
fourbissent /fuʁ.bis/ |
| imperfect2 | fourbisse /fuʁ.bis/ |
fourbisses /fuʁ.bis/ |
fourbît /fuʁ.bi/ |
fourbissions /fuʁ.bi.sjɔ̃/ |
fourbissiez /fuʁ.bi.sje/ |
fourbissent /fuʁ.bis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fourbis /fuʁ.bi/ |
— | fourbissons /fuʁ.bi.sɔ̃/ |
fourbissez /fuʁ.bi.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “fourbir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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