bredouiller
French
Etymology
Possibly from Old French bredeler, variant of bretter / bretonner (“to talk like a Breton”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁə.du.je/
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Verb
bredouiller
- (transitive, intransitive) to stammer, to mumble
Conjugation
Conjugation of bredouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | bredouiller | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | bredouillant /bʁə.du.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bredouillé /bʁə.du.je/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | bredouille /bʁə.duj/ | bredouilles /bʁə.duj/ | bredouille /bʁə.duj/ | bredouillons /bʁə.du.jɔ̃/ | bredouillez /bʁə.du.je/ | bredouillent /bʁə.duj/ |
imperfect | bredouillais /bʁə.du.jɛ/ | bredouillais /bʁə.du.jɛ/ | bredouillait /bʁə.du.jɛ/ | bredouillions /bʁə.duj.jɔ̃/ | bredouilliez /bʁə.duj.je/ | bredouillaient /bʁə.du.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | bredouillai /bʁə.du.je/ | bredouillas /bʁə.du.ja/ | bredouilla /bʁə.du.ja/ | bredouillâmes /bʁə.du.jam/ | bredouillâtes /bʁə.du.jat/ | bredouillèrent /bʁə.du.jɛʁ/ | |
future | bredouillerai /bʁə.duj.ʁe/ | bredouilleras /bʁə.duj.ʁa/ | bredouillera /bʁə.duj.ʁa/ | bredouillerons /bʁə.duj.ʁɔ̃/ | bredouillerez /bʁə.duj.ʁe/ | bredouilleront /bʁə.duj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | bredouillerais /bʁə.duj.ʁɛ/ | bredouillerais /bʁə.duj.ʁɛ/ | bredouillerait /bʁə.duj.ʁɛ/ | bredouillerions /bʁə.du.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | bredouilleriez /bʁə.du.jə.ʁje/ | bredouilleraient /bʁə.duj.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 | bredouille /bʁə.duj/ | bredouilles /bʁə.duj/ | bredouille /bʁə.duj/ | bredouillions /bʁə.duj.jɔ̃/ | bredouilliez /bʁə.duj.je/ | bredouillent /bʁə.duj/ |
imperfect2 | bredouillasse /bʁə.du.jas/ | bredouillasses /bʁə.du.jas/ | bredouillât /bʁə.du.ja/ | bredouillassions /bʁə.du.ja.sjɔ̃/ | bredouillassiez /bʁə.du.ja.sje/ | bredouillassent /bʁə.du.jas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | bredouille /bʁə.duj/ | — | bredouillons /bʁə.du.jɔ̃/ | bredouillez /bʁə.du.je/ | — | |
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
- bredouille
Further reading
- “bredouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- débrouiller