exfolier

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exfōliāre. Compare effeuiller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛks.fɔ.lje/

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Verb

exfolier

1. (transitive) to exfoliate, strip of leaves
2. (reflexive) to exfoliate

Conjugation

Conjugation of exfolier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exfolier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exfoliant /ɛks.fɔ.ljɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exfolié /ɛks.fɔ.lje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exfolie /ɛks.fɔ.li/	exfolies /ɛks.fɔ.li/	exfolie /ɛks.fɔ.li/	exfolions /ɛks.fɔ.ljɔ̃/	exfoliez /ɛks.fɔ.lje/	exfolient /ɛks.fɔ.li/
	imperfect	exfoliais /ɛks.fɔ.ljɛ/	exfoliais /ɛks.fɔ.ljɛ/	exfoliait /ɛks.fɔ.ljɛ/	exfoliions /ɛks.fɔ.li.jɔ̃/	exfoliiez /ɛks.fɔ.li.je/	exfoliaient /ɛks.fɔ.ljɛ/
	past historic2	exfoliai /ɛks.fɔ.lje/	exfolias /ɛks.fɔ.lja/	exfolia /ɛks.fɔ.lja/	exfoliâmes /ɛks.fɔ.ljam/	exfoliâtes /ɛks.fɔ.ljat/	exfolièrent /ɛks.fɔ.ljɛʁ/
	future	exfolierai /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁe/	exfolieras /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁa/	exfoliera /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁa/	exfolierons /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁɔ̃/	exfolierez /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁe/	exfolieront /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exfolierais /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁɛ/	exfolierais /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁɛ/	exfolierait /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁɛ/	exfolierions /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁjɔ̃/	exfolieriez /ɛks.fɔ.li.ʁje/	exfolieraient /ɛks.fɔ.li.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	exfolie /ɛks.fɔ.li/	exfolies /ɛks.fɔ.li/	exfolie /ɛks.fɔ.li/	exfoliions /ɛks.fɔ.li.jɔ̃/	exfoliiez /ɛks.fɔ.li.je/	exfolient /ɛks.fɔ.li/
	imperfect2	exfoliasse /ɛks.fɔ.ljas/	exfoliasses /ɛks.fɔ.ljas/	exfoliât /ɛks.fɔ.lja/	exfoliassions /ɛks.fɔ.lja.sjɔ̃/	exfoliassiez /ɛks.fɔ.lja.sje/	exfoliassent /ɛks.fɔ.ljas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exfolie /ɛks.fɔ.li/	—	exfolions /ɛks.fɔ.ljɔ̃/	exfoliez /ɛks.fɔ.lje/	—
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).

Further reading

• “exfolier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

exfolier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exfoliō