affouiller
French, verb/a.fu.je/
affouiller is spelled A-F-F-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters). Affouiller is a French verb meaning “to dig, to scour (said of a waterway)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Creuser, en parlant de l’action des eaux courantes qui creusent le lit et les berges d’une rivière”.
What does affouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dig, to scour (said of a waterway)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Creuser, en parlant de l’action des eaux courantes qui creusent le lit et les berges d’une rivière.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of affouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affouillé participle past
- affouille first-person indicative present
- affouilles indicative present second-person
- affouillons first-person indicative plural
- affouillez indicative plural present
- affouillent indicative plural present
- affouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- affouillait imperfect indicative singular
- affouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- affouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- affouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- affouillai first-person historic indicative
- affouillas historic indicative past
- affouilla historic indicative past
- affouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affouiller?
- /a.fu.je/
- \a.fu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.