affabuler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.fa.by.le/
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Verb
affabuler
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “affabuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012