Most likely from camouflet, a borrowing from Italian camuffare (“to hide, to disguise”).
camoufler
| infinitive | simple | camoufler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | camouflant /ka.mu.flɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | camouflé /ka.mu.fle/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | camoufle /ka.mufl/ |
camoufles /ka.mufl/ |
camoufle /ka.mufl/ |
camouflons /ka.mu.flɔ̃/ |
camouflez /ka.mu.fle/ |
camouflent /ka.mufl/ |
| imperfect | camouflais /ka.mu.flɛ/ |
camouflais /ka.mu.flɛ/ |
camouflait /ka.mu.flɛ/ |
camouflions /ka.mu.fli.jɔ̃/ |
camoufliez /ka.mu.fli.je/ |
camouflaient /ka.mu.flɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | camouflai /ka.mu.fle/ |
camouflas /ka.mu.fla/ |
camoufla /ka.mu.fla/ |
camouflâmes /ka.mu.flam/ |
camouflâtes /ka.mu.flat/ |
camouflèrent /ka.mu.flɛʁ/ | |
| future | camouflerai /ka.mu.flə.ʁe/ |
camoufleras /ka.mu.flə.ʁa/ |
camouflera /ka.mu.flə.ʁa/ |
camouflerons /ka.mu.flə.ʁɔ̃/ |
camouflerez /ka.mu.flə.ʁe/ |
camoufleront /ka.mu.flə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | camouflerais /ka.mu.flə.ʁɛ/ |
camouflerais /ka.mu.flə.ʁɛ/ |
camouflerait /ka.mu.flə.ʁɛ/ |
camouflerions /ka.mu.flə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
camoufleriez /ka.mu.flə.ʁje/ |
camoufleraient /ka.mu.flə.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 | camoufle /ka.mufl/ |
camoufles /ka.mufl/ |
camoufle /ka.mufl/ |
camouflions /ka.mu.fli.jɔ̃/ |
camoufliez /ka.mu.fli.je/ |
camouflent /ka.mufl/ |
| imperfect2 | camouflasse /ka.mu.flas/ |
camouflasses /ka.mu.flas/ |
camouflât /ka.mu.fla/ |
camouflassions /ka.mu.fla.sjɔ̃/ |
camouflassiez /ka.mu.fla.sje/ |
camouflassent /ka.mu.flas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | camoufle /ka.mufl/ |
— | camouflons /ka.mu.flɔ̃/ |
camouflez /ka.mu.fle/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||