vrombir
French
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, compare vroum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vʁɔ̃.biʁ/
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Verb
vrombir
- (intransitive) to hum, whirr
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- L'essaim pourrait piquer : il n'est programmé que pour vrombir et vibrer, ce qui suffit, étrangement, à les décourager d'approcher des ouvertures.
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Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of vrombir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vrombir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vrombissant /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vrombi /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | vrombis /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombis /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombit /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombissons /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɔ̃/ | vrombissez /vʁɔ̃.bi.se/ | vrombissent /vʁɔ̃.bis/ |
| imperfect | vrombissais /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ | vrombissais /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ | vrombissait /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ | vrombissions /vʁɔ̃.bi.sjɔ̃/ | vrombissiez /vʁɔ̃.bi.sje/ | vrombissaient /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vrombis /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombis /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombit /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombîmes /vʁɔ̃.bim/ | vrombîtes /vʁɔ̃.bit/ | vrombirent /vʁɔ̃.biʁ/ | |
| future | vrombirai /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁe/ | vrombiras /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁa/ | vrombira /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁa/ | vrombirons /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɔ̃/ | vrombirez /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁe/ | vrombiront /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vrombirais /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɛ/ | vrombirais /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɛ/ | vrombirait /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɛ/ | vrombirions /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁjɔ̃/ | vrombiriez /vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁje/ | vrombiraient /vʁɔ̃.bi.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 | vrombisse /vʁɔ̃.bis/ | vrombisses /vʁɔ̃.bis/ | vrombisse /vʁɔ̃.bis/ | vrombissions /vʁɔ̃.bi.sjɔ̃/ | vrombissiez /vʁɔ̃.bi.sje/ | vrombissent /vʁɔ̃.bis/ |
| imperfect2 | vrombisse /vʁɔ̃.bis/ | vrombisses /vʁɔ̃.bis/ | vrombît /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | vrombissions /vʁɔ̃.bi.sjɔ̃/ | vrombissiez /vʁɔ̃.bi.sje/ | vrombissent /vʁɔ̃.bis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vrombis /vʁɔ̃.bi/ | — | vrombissons /vʁɔ̃.bi.sɔ̃/ | vrombissez /vʁɔ̃.bi.se/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- vrombissement
Further reading
- “vrombir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.