briguer
French
Etymology
From Italian briga (“quarrel; bother”) with the original meaning of "to look for a fight".
Pronunciation
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Verb
briguer
- (transitive) to crave, to have one's eyes on
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, “Act 2, Scene 3”, in Horace:
- Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort / Qu'on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
- To die for the country is such a noble fate / That men crave in crowds such a fair death.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of briguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | briguer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | briguant /bʁi.ɡɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | brigué /bʁi.ɡe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | brigue /bʁiɡ/ | brigues /bʁiɡ/ | brigue /bʁiɡ/ | briguons /bʁi.ɡɔ̃/ | briguez /bʁi.ɡe/ | briguent /bʁiɡ/ |
| imperfect | briguais /bʁi.ɡɛ/ | briguais /bʁi.ɡɛ/ | briguait /bʁi.ɡɛ/ | briguions /bʁi.ɡjɔ̃/ | briguiez /bʁi.ɡje/ | briguaient /bʁi.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | briguai /bʁi.ɡe/ | briguas /bʁi.ɡa/ | brigua /bʁi.ɡa/ | briguâmes /bʁi.ɡam/ | briguâtes /bʁi.ɡat/ | briguèrent /bʁi.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | briguerai /bʁi.ɡʁe/ | brigueras /bʁi.ɡʁa/ | briguera /bʁi.ɡʁa/ | briguerons /bʁi.ɡʁɔ̃/ | briguerez /bʁi.ɡʁe/ | brigueront /bʁi.ɡʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | briguerais /bʁi.ɡʁɛ/ | briguerais /bʁi.ɡʁɛ/ | briguerait /bʁi.ɡʁɛ/ | briguerions /bʁi.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ | brigueriez /bʁi.ɡə.ʁje/ | brigueraient /bʁi.ɡʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | brigue /bʁiɡ/ | brigues /bʁiɡ/ | brigue /bʁiɡ/ | briguions /bʁi.ɡjɔ̃/ | briguiez /bʁi.ɡje/ | briguent /bʁiɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | briguasse /bʁi.ɡas/ | briguasses /bʁi.ɡas/ | briguât /bʁi.ɡa/ | briguassions /bʁi.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ | briguassiez /bʁi.ɡa.sje/ | briguassent /bʁi.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | brigue /bʁiɡ/ | — | briguons /bʁi.ɡɔ̃/ | briguez /bʁi.ɡe/ | — | |
| 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
- “briguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.