bigarrer
French
Etymology
From bis (“twice”) + *garrer, from Middle French garre (“of two colors”), but further origin uncertain; possibly borrowed from Occitan or Provençal, ultimately from Germanic. Ultimate source of English bigarade (“bitter orange”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Verb
bigarrer
- to variegate, to produce a colourful pattern
Conjugation
Conjugation of bigarrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bigarrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bigarrant /bi.ɡa.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bigarré /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ | bigarres /bi.ɡaʁ/ | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ | bigarrons /bi.ɡa.ʁɔ̃/ | bigarrez /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ | bigarrent /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
| imperfect | bigarrais /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ | bigarrais /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ | bigarrait /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ | bigarrions /bi.ɡa.ʁjɔ̃/ | bigarriez /bi.ɡa.ʁje/ | bigarraient /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bigarrai /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ | bigarras /bi.ɡa.ʁa/ | bigarra /bi.ɡa.ʁa/ | bigarrâmes /bi.ɡa.ʁam/ | bigarrâtes /bi.ɡa.ʁat/ | bigarrèrent /bi.ɡa.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | bigarrerai /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁe/ | bigarreras /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁa/ | bigarrera /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁa/ | bigarrerons /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | bigarrerez /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁe/ | bigarreront /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bigarrerais /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | bigarrerais /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | bigarrerait /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | bigarrerions /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | bigarreriez /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁje/ | bigarreraient /bi.ɡa.ʁə.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 | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ | bigarres /bi.ɡaʁ/ | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ | bigarrions /bi.ɡa.ʁjɔ̃/ | bigarriez /bi.ɡa.ʁje/ | bigarrent /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | bigarrasse /bi.ɡa.ʁas/ | bigarrasses /bi.ɡa.ʁas/ | bigarrât /bi.ɡa.ʁa/ | bigarrassions /bi.ɡa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | bigarrassiez /bi.ɡa.ʁa.sje/ | bigarrassent /bi.ɡa.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ | — | bigarrons /bi.ɡa.ʁɔ̃/ | bigarrez /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- bigarré
- bigarrure
Descendants
- → Spanish: abigarrar
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
- “bigarrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.