bondonner

French

Etymology

From bondon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.dɔ.ne/

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Verb

bondonner

1. to bung or to plug

Conjugation

Conjugation of bondonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bondonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bondonnant /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bondonné /bɔ̃.dɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bondonne /bɔ̃.dɔn/	bondonnes /bɔ̃.dɔn/	bondonne /bɔ̃.dɔn/	bondonnons /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɔ̃/	bondonnez /bɔ̃.dɔ.ne/	bondonnent /bɔ̃.dɔn/
	imperfect	bondonnais /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɛ/	bondonnais /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɛ/	bondonnait /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɛ/	bondonnions /bɔ̃.dɔ.njɔ̃/	bondonniez /bɔ̃.dɔ.nje/	bondonnaient /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	bondonnai /bɔ̃.dɔ.ne/	bondonnas /bɔ̃.dɔ.na/	bondonna /bɔ̃.dɔ.na/	bondonnâmes /bɔ̃.dɔ.nam/	bondonnâtes /bɔ̃.dɔ.nat/	bondonnèrent /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	bondonnerai /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁe/	bondonneras /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁa/	bondonnera /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁa/	bondonnerons /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/	bondonnerez /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁe/	bondonneront /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bondonnerais /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁɛ/	bondonnerais /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁɛ/	bondonnerait /bɔ̃.dɔn.ʁɛ/	bondonnerions /bɔ̃.dɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bondonneriez /bɔ̃.dɔ.nə.ʁje/	bondonneraient /bɔ̃.dɔn.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	bondonne /bɔ̃.dɔn/	bondonnes /bɔ̃.dɔn/	bondonne /bɔ̃.dɔn/	bondonnions /bɔ̃.dɔ.njɔ̃/	bondonniez /bɔ̃.dɔ.nje/	bondonnent /bɔ̃.dɔn/
	imperfect2	bondonnasse /bɔ̃.dɔ.nas/	bondonnasses /bɔ̃.dɔ.nas/	bondonnât /bɔ̃.dɔ.na/	bondonnassions /bɔ̃.dɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	bondonnassiez /bɔ̃.dɔ.na.sje/	bondonnassent /bɔ̃.dɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bondonne /bɔ̃.dɔn/	—	bondonnons /bɔ̃.dɔ.nɔ̃/	bondonnez /bɔ̃.dɔ.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).

Related terms

• bondon
• bondonnière

Further reading

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