fabriquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fabricāre. Doublet of forger.

Pronunciation

Verb

fabriquer

  1. to make; to build; to manufacture
  2. to fabricate
  3. (informal, colloquial) to be up to (more polite than ficher; less polite than faire)
    Qu’est-ce que tu fabriques ? ― What are you doing?

Conjugation
Conjugation of fabriquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple fabriquer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple fabriquant
/fa.bʁi.kɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle fabriqué
/fa.bʁi.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present fabrique
/fa.bʁik/		 fabriques
/fa.bʁik/		 fabrique
/fa.bʁik/		 fabriquons
/fa.bʁi.kɔ̃/		 fabriquez
/fa.bʁi.ke/		 fabriquent
/fa.bʁik/
imperfect fabriquais
/fa.bʁi.kɛ/		 fabriquais
/fa.bʁi.kɛ/		 fabriquait
/fa.bʁi.kɛ/		 fabriquions
/fa.bʁi.kjɔ̃/		 fabriquiez
/fa.bʁi.kje/		 fabriquaient
/fa.bʁi.kɛ/
past historic2 fabriquai
/fa.bʁi.ke/		 fabriquas
/fa.bʁi.ka/		 fabriqua
/fa.bʁi.ka/		 fabriquâmes
/fa.bʁi.kam/		 fabriquâtes
/fa.bʁi.kat/		 fabriquèrent
/fa.bʁi.kɛʁ/
future fabriquerai
/fa.bʁi.kʁe/		 fabriqueras
/fa.bʁi.kʁa/		 fabriquera
/fa.bʁi.kʁa/		 fabriquerons
/fa.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/		 fabriquerez
/fa.bʁi.kʁe/		 fabriqueront
/fa.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/
conditional fabriquerais
/fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/		 fabriquerais
/fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/		 fabriquerait
/fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/		 fabriquerions
/fa.bʁi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/		 fabriqueriez
/fa.bʁi.kə.ʁje/		 fabriqueraient
/fa.bʁi.kʁɛ/
(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 fabrique
/fa.bʁik/		 fabriques
/fa.bʁik/		 fabrique
/fa.bʁik/		 fabriquions
/fa.bʁi.kjɔ̃/		 fabriquiez
/fa.bʁi.kje/		 fabriquent
/fa.bʁik/
imperfect2 fabriquasse
/fa.bʁi.kas/		 fabriquasses
/fa.bʁi.kas/		 fabriquât
/fa.bʁi.ka/		 fabriquassions
/fa.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/		 fabriquassiez
/fa.bʁi.ka.sje/		 fabriquassent
/fa.bʁi.kas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — fabrique
/fa.bʁik/		 — fabriquons
/fa.bʁi.kɔ̃/		 fabriquez
/fa.bʁi.ke/		 —
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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