bringuebaler

French

Alternative forms

• brimbaler, brinquebaler

Etymology

A combination of Latin ballare and a family of Middle French words beginning in *brimb-, esp. brimber (“to beg”), which give the sense of "wandering to and fro". Likely influenced by Middle French trinqueballer (“to chime a bell”), itself from Middle French triballer (“to wander”) (modern French trimbaler).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.le/

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Verb

bringuebaler

1. (transitive, of bells) to sound, ring, chime, ding
2. (intransitive, of bells) to ring, sound, chime
3. (transitive) to rattle
4. (intransitive) to rattle
5. (intransitive) to rattle along, rattle about (move, making a rattling or jolting sound)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bringuebaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bringuebaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bringuebalant /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bringuebalé /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bringuebale /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	bringuebales /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	bringuebale /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	bringuebalons /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɔ̃/	bringuebalez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.le/	bringuebalent /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/
	imperfect	bringuebalais /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɛ/	bringuebalais /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɛ/	bringuebalait /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɛ/	bringuebalions /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.ljɔ̃/	bringuebaliez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lje/	bringuebalaient /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɛ/
	past historic2	bringuebalai /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.le/	bringuebalas /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.la/	bringuebala /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.la/	bringuebalâmes /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lam/	bringuebalâtes /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lat/	bringuebalèrent /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɛʁ/
	future	bringuebalerai /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁe/	bringuebaleras /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁa/	bringuebalera /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁa/	bringuebalerons /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁɔ̃/	bringuebalerez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁe/	bringuebaleront /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bringuebalerais /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁɛ/	bringuebalerais /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁɛ/	bringuebalerait /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.ʁɛ/	bringuebalerions /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	bringuebaleriez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lə.ʁje/	bringuebaleraient /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal.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	bringuebale /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	bringuebales /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	bringuebale /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	bringuebalions /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.ljɔ̃/	bringuebaliez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lje/	bringuebalent /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/
	imperfect2	bringuebalasse /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.las/	bringuebalasses /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.las/	bringuebalât /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.la/	bringuebalassions /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.la.sjɔ̃/	bringuebalassiez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.la.sje/	bringuebalassent /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bringuebale /bʁɛ̃ɡ.bal/	—	bringuebalons /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.lɔ̃/	bringuebalez /bʁɛ̃ɡ.ba.le/	—
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

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