fureter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fyʁ.te/
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Verb
fureter
- to ferret (around, about); to rummage
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Et il se mit à fureter sur le lit, derrière les portes, sous les chaises; elle était tombée à terre, entre les sacs et la muraille.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Internet slang, France) to browse (a website)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il furète and the third-person singular future indicative il furètera.
Conjugation of fureter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fureter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | furetant /fyʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fureté /fyʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ |
furètes /fy.ʁɛt/ |
furète /fy.ʁɛt/ |
furetons /fyʁ.tɔ̃/ |
furetez /fyʁ.te/ |
furètent /fy.ʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | furetais /fyʁ.tɛ/ |
furetais /fyʁ.tɛ/ |
furetait /fyʁ.tɛ/ |
furetions /fy.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ |
furetiez /fy.ʁə.tje/ |
furetaient /fyʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | furetai /fyʁ.te/ |
furetas /fyʁ.ta/ |
fureta /fyʁ.ta/ |
furetâmes /fyʁ.tam/ |
furetâtes /fyʁ.tat/ |
furetèrent /fyʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | furèterai /fy.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁe/ |
furèteras /fy.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁa/ |
furètera /fy.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁa/ |
furèterons /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ |
furèterez /fy.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁe/ |
furèteront /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | furèterais /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
furèterais /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
furèterait /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
furèterions /fy.ʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fy.ʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
furèteriez /fy.ʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /fy.ʁe.tə.ʁje/ |
furèteraient /fy.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fy.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ |
furètes /fy.ʁɛt/ |
furète /fy.ʁɛt/ |
furetions /fy.ʁə.tjɔ̃/ |
furetiez /fy.ʁə.tje/ |
furètent /fy.ʁɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | furetasse /fyʁ.tas/ |
furetasses /fyʁ.tas/ |
furetât /fyʁ.ta/ |
furetassions /fyʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
furetassiez /fyʁ.ta.sje/ |
furetassent /fyʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | furète /fy.ʁɛt/ |
— | furetons /fyʁ.tɔ̃/ |
furetez /fyʁ.te/ |
— | |
| 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
- “fureter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012