truffer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁy.fe/

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Verb

truffer

1. to add truffles to
2. to cram, stuff

Conjugation

Conjugation of truffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	truffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	truffant /tʁy.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		truffé /tʁy.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	truffe /tʁyf/	truffes /tʁyf/	truffe /tʁyf/	truffons /tʁy.fɔ̃/	truffez /tʁy.fe/	truffent /tʁyf/
	imperfect	truffais /tʁy.fɛ/	truffais /tʁy.fɛ/	truffait /tʁy.fɛ/	truffions /tʁy.fjɔ̃/	truffiez /tʁy.fje/	truffaient /tʁy.fɛ/
	past historic2	truffai /tʁy.fe/	truffas /tʁy.fa/	truffa /tʁy.fa/	truffâmes /tʁy.fam/	truffâtes /tʁy.fat/	truffèrent /tʁy.fɛʁ/
	future	trufferai /tʁy.fʁe/	trufferas /tʁy.fʁa/	truffera /tʁy.fʁa/	trufferons /tʁy.fʁɔ̃/	trufferez /tʁy.fʁe/	trufferont /tʁy.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trufferais /tʁy.fʁɛ/	trufferais /tʁy.fʁɛ/	trufferait /tʁy.fʁɛ/	trufferions /tʁy.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	trufferiez /tʁy.fə.ʁje/	trufferaient /tʁy.fʁɛ/
(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	truffe /tʁyf/	truffes /tʁyf/	truffe /tʁyf/	truffions /tʁy.fjɔ̃/	truffiez /tʁy.fje/	truffent /tʁyf/
	imperfect2	truffasse /tʁy.fas/	truffasses /tʁy.fas/	truffât /tʁy.fa/	truffassions /tʁy.fa.sjɔ̃/	truffassiez /tʁy.fa.sje/	truffassent /tʁy.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	truffe /tʁyf/	—	truffons /tʁy.fɔ̃/	truffez /tʁy.fe/	—
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

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