bretonner

French

Etymology

From breton (“the Breton language”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁə.tɔ.ne/

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• Homophones: bretonnai, bretonné, bretonnée, bretonnées, bretonnés, bretonnez

Verb

bretonner

1. to talk or speak Breton
2. to talk or speak incomprehensibly

Conjugation

Conjugation of bretonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bretonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bretonnant /bʁə.tɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bretonné /bʁə.tɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bretonne /bʁə.tɔn/	bretonnes /bʁə.tɔn/	bretonne /bʁə.tɔn/	bretonnons /bʁə.tɔ.nɔ̃/	bretonnez /bʁə.tɔ.ne/	bretonnent /bʁə.tɔn/
	imperfect	bretonnais /bʁə.tɔ.nɛ/	bretonnais /bʁə.tɔ.nɛ/	bretonnait /bʁə.tɔ.nɛ/	bretonnions /bʁə.tɔ.njɔ̃/	bretonniez /bʁə.tɔ.nje/	bretonnaient /bʁə.tɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	bretonnai /bʁə.tɔ.ne/	bretonnas /bʁə.tɔ.na/	bretonna /bʁə.tɔ.na/	bretonnâmes /bʁə.tɔ.nam/	bretonnâtes /bʁə.tɔ.nat/	bretonnèrent /bʁə.tɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	bretonnerai /bʁə.tɔn.ʁe/	bretonneras /bʁə.tɔn.ʁa/	bretonnera /bʁə.tɔn.ʁa/	bretonnerons /bʁə.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/	bretonnerez /bʁə.tɔn.ʁe/	bretonneront /bʁə.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bretonnerais /bʁə.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bretonnerais /bʁə.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bretonnerait /bʁə.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bretonnerions /bʁə.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bretonneriez /bʁə.tɔ.nə.ʁje/	bretonneraient /bʁə.tɔn.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	bretonne /bʁə.tɔn/	bretonnes /bʁə.tɔn/	bretonne /bʁə.tɔn/	bretonnions /bʁə.tɔ.njɔ̃/	bretonniez /bʁə.tɔ.nje/	bretonnent /bʁə.tɔn/
	imperfect2	bretonnasse /bʁə.tɔ.nas/	bretonnasses /bʁə.tɔ.nas/	bretonnât /bʁə.tɔ.na/	bretonnassions /bʁə.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	bretonnassiez /bʁə.tɔ.na.sje/	bretonnassent /bʁə.tɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bretonne /bʁə.tɔn/	—	bretonnons /bʁə.tɔ.nɔ̃/	bretonnez /bʁə.tɔ.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).