fabriquez

Fabriquez is a French verb form derived from fabriquer, meaning to make or to fabricate. It serves as the second-person plural present indicative: vous fabriquez…, as in Vous fabriquez des meubles. It is also the imperative form for addressing multiple people: Fabriquez !

Origin and morphology: fabriquer comes from medieval Latin fabrica; fabriquez is formed from the present stem fabriqu- plus the standard vous ending -ez. The sequence qu- before -ez yields the /k/ sound; the -ez ending provides a final [e] vowel, with the final consonant typically not pronounced.

Pronunciation: In standard French, fabriquez is pronounced roughly fab-ree-keh; the final -ez is pronounced as an [e] vowel and the final 'z' is not pronounced.

Usage: The form is common in written and spoken French when addressing a group or giving a command. It appears in instructions, manuals, and formal communication. Related forms include je fabrique, tu fabriques, il fabrique, nous fabriquons, vous fabriquez, ils fabriquent; the past participle is fabriqué.

See also: fabriquer, conjugation; Note that "fabrique" without ending is a noun meaning "factory."