gronder
French
Etymology
From Latin grundīre (“to grunt”), a form of grunnīre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɔ̃.de/
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Verb
gronder
- (intransitive) to rumble, roar; to growl
- (transitive) to tell off, scold
Conjugation
Conjugation of gronder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | gronder | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | grondant /ɡʁɔ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | grondé /ɡʁɔ̃.de/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | grondes /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | grondons /ɡʁɔ̃.dɔ̃/ | grondez /ɡʁɔ̃.de/ | grondent /ɡʁɔ̃d/ |
imperfect | grondais /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/ | grondais /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/ | grondait /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/ | grondions /ɡʁɔ̃.djɔ̃/ | grondiez /ɡʁɔ̃.dje/ | grondaient /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | grondai /ɡʁɔ̃.de/ | grondas /ɡʁɔ̃.da/ | gronda /ɡʁɔ̃.da/ | grondâmes /ɡʁɔ̃.dam/ | grondâtes /ɡʁɔ̃.dat/ | grondèrent /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛʁ/ | |
future | gronderai /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁe/ | gronderas /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁa/ | grondera /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁa/ | gronderons /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | gronderez /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁe/ | gronderont /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | gronderais /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | gronderais /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | gronderait /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | gronderions /ɡʁɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/ | gronderiez /ɡʁɔ̃.də.ʁje/ | gronderaient /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(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 | gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | grondes /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | grondions /ɡʁɔ̃.djɔ̃/ | grondiez /ɡʁɔ̃.dje/ | grondent /ɡʁɔ̃d/ |
imperfect2 | grondasse /ɡʁɔ̃.das/ | grondasses /ɡʁɔ̃.das/ | grondât /ɡʁɔ̃.da/ | grondassions /ɡʁɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/ | grondassiez /ɡʁɔ̃.da.sje/ | grondassent /ɡʁɔ̃.das/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/ | — | grondons /ɡʁɔ̃.dɔ̃/ | grondez /ɡʁɔ̃.de/ | — | |
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “gronder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.