bredouiller
French edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Old French bredeler, variant of bretter / bretonner (“to talk like a Breton”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bredouiller
- (transitive, intransitive) to stammer, to mumble
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bredouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bredouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “bredouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.