tripatouiller
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of tripoter + patouiller
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tripatouiller
- (familiar) to grope
- Il m’a tellement tripatouillé que j’ai mal de partout.
- He groped me so much that I hurt all over.
- (familiar) to fiddle with
- 2025 January 17, Marc Perelman, “Kafando : la question de l'extradition de Compaoré n'est "pas la priorité"”, in France24[1]:
- Désormais, les dirigeants politiques "réfléchiront à deux fois avant d’essayer d’essayer de tripatouiller leur Constitution", assure-t-il.
- Henceforth, political leaders "will think twice before trying to try to fiddle with their constitution," he assures us.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of tripatouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tripatouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tripatouillant /tʁi.pa.tu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tripatouillé /tʁi.pa.tu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tripatouille /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
tripatouilles /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
tripatouille /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
tripatouillons /tʁi.pa.tu.jɔ̃/ |
tripatouillez /tʁi.pa.tu.je/ |
tripatouillent /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
| imperfect | tripatouillais /tʁi.pa.tu.jɛ/ |
tripatouillais /tʁi.pa.tu.jɛ/ |
tripatouillait /tʁi.pa.tu.jɛ/ |
tripatouillions /tʁi.pa.tuj.jɔ̃/ |
tripatouilliez /tʁi.pa.tuj.je/ |
tripatouillaient /tʁi.pa.tu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tripatouillai /tʁi.pa.tu.je/ |
tripatouillas /tʁi.pa.tu.ja/ |
tripatouilla /tʁi.pa.tu.ja/ |
tripatouillâmes /tʁi.pa.tu.jam/ |
tripatouillâtes /tʁi.pa.tu.jat/ |
tripatouillèrent /tʁi.pa.tu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | tripatouillerai /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁe/ |
tripatouilleras /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁa/ |
tripatouillera /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁa/ |
tripatouillerons /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
tripatouillerez /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁe/ |
tripatouilleront /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tripatouillerais /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁɛ/ |
tripatouillerais /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁɛ/ |
tripatouillerait /tʁi.pa.tuj.ʁɛ/ |
tripatouillerions /tʁi.pa.tu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tripatouilleriez /tʁi.pa.tu.jə.ʁje/ |
tripatouilleraient /tʁi.pa.tuj.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 | tripatouille /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
tripatouilles /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
tripatouille /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
tripatouillions /tʁi.pa.tuj.jɔ̃/ |
tripatouilliez /tʁi.pa.tuj.je/ |
tripatouillent /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
| imperfect2 | tripatouillasse /tʁi.pa.tu.jas/ |
tripatouillasses /tʁi.pa.tu.jas/ |
tripatouillât /tʁi.pa.tu.ja/ |
tripatouillassions /tʁi.pa.tu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
tripatouillassiez /tʁi.pa.tu.ja.sje/ |
tripatouillassent /tʁi.pa.tu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tripatouille /tʁi.pa.tuj/ |
— | tripatouillons /tʁi.pa.tu.jɔ̃/ |
tripatouillez /tʁi.pa.tu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]“tripatouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.