éborgner

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ borgne (“one-eyed”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

éborgner

1. to cause to lose an eye, take someone's eye out, have someone's eye out, gouge out an eye

Conjugation

Conjugation of éborgner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	éborgner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éborgnant /e.bɔʁ.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		éborgné /e.bɔʁ.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	éborgne /e.bɔʁɲ/	éborgnes /e.bɔʁɲ/	éborgne /e.bɔʁɲ/	éborgnons /e.bɔʁ.ɲɔ̃/	éborgnez /e.bɔʁ.ɲe/	éborgnent /e.bɔʁɲ/
	imperfect	éborgnais /e.bɔʁ.ɲɛ/	éborgnais /e.bɔʁ.ɲɛ/	éborgnait /e.bɔʁ.ɲɛ/	éborgnions /e.bɔʁ.ɲjɔ̃/	éborgniez /e.bɔʁ.ɲje/	éborgnaient /e.bɔʁ.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	éborgnai /e.bɔʁ.ɲe/	éborgnas /e.bɔʁ.ɲa/	éborgna /e.bɔʁ.ɲa/	éborgnâmes /e.bɔʁ.ɲam/	éborgnâtes /e.bɔʁ.ɲat/	éborgnèrent /e.bɔʁ.ɲɛʁ/
	future	éborgnerai /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁe/	éborgneras /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁa/	éborgnera /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁa/	éborgnerons /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	éborgnerez /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁe/	éborgneront /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	éborgnerais /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	éborgnerais /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	éborgnerait /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	éborgnerions /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	éborgneriez /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.ʁje/	éborgneraient /e.bɔʁ.ɲə.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	éborgne /e.bɔʁɲ/	éborgnes /e.bɔʁɲ/	éborgne /e.bɔʁɲ/	éborgnions /e.bɔʁ.ɲjɔ̃/	éborgniez /e.bɔʁ.ɲje/	éborgnent /e.bɔʁɲ/
	imperfect2	éborgnasse /e.bɔʁ.ɲas/	éborgnasses /e.bɔʁ.ɲas/	éborgnât /e.bɔʁ.ɲa/	éborgnassions /e.bɔʁ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	éborgnassiez /e.bɔʁ.ɲa.sje/	éborgnassent /e.bɔʁ.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	éborgne /e.bɔʁɲ/	—	éborgnons /e.bɔʁ.ɲɔ̃/	éborgnez /e.bɔʁ.ɲe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “éborgner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.