ballonner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ballonner

1. swell, swell up, bulge

Conjugation

Conjugation of ballonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ballonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ballonnant /ba.lɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ballonné /ba.lɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ballonne /ba.lɔn/	ballonnes /ba.lɔn/	ballonne /ba.lɔn/	ballonnons /ba.lɔ.nɔ̃/	ballonnez /ba.lɔ.ne/	ballonnent /ba.lɔn/
	imperfect	ballonnais /ba.lɔ.nɛ/	ballonnais /ba.lɔ.nɛ/	ballonnait /ba.lɔ.nɛ/	ballonnions /ba.lɔ.njɔ̃/	ballonniez /ba.lɔ.nje/	ballonnaient /ba.lɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	ballonnai /ba.lɔ.ne/	ballonnas /ba.lɔ.na/	ballonna /ba.lɔ.na/	ballonnâmes /ba.lɔ.nam/	ballonnâtes /ba.lɔ.nat/	ballonnèrent /ba.lɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	ballonnerai /ba.lɔn.ʁe/	ballonneras /ba.lɔn.ʁa/	ballonnera /ba.lɔn.ʁa/	ballonnerons /ba.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/	ballonnerez /ba.lɔn.ʁe/	ballonneront /ba.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ballonnerais /ba.lɔn.ʁɛ/	ballonnerais /ba.lɔn.ʁɛ/	ballonnerait /ba.lɔn.ʁɛ/	ballonnerions /ba.lɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ballonneriez /ba.lɔ.nə.ʁje/	ballonneraient /ba.lɔn.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	ballonne /ba.lɔn/	ballonnes /ba.lɔn/	ballonne /ba.lɔn/	ballonnions /ba.lɔ.njɔ̃/	ballonniez /ba.lɔ.nje/	ballonnent /ba.lɔn/
	imperfect2	ballonnasse /ba.lɔ.nas/	ballonnasses /ba.lɔ.nas/	ballonnât /ba.lɔ.na/	ballonnassions /ba.lɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	ballonnassiez /ba.lɔ.na.sje/	ballonnassent /ba.lɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ballonne /ba.lɔn/	—	ballonnons /ba.lɔ.nɔ̃/	ballonnez /ba.lɔ.ne/	—
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

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