bruler

See also: brûler

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

bruler

1. post-1990 spelling of brûler

Conjugation

Conjugation of bruler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bruler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	brulant /bʁy.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		brulé /bʁy.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	brule /bʁyl/	brules /bʁyl/	brule /bʁyl/	brulons /bʁy.lɔ̃/	brulez /bʁy.le/	brulent /bʁyl/
	imperfect	brulais /bʁy.lɛ/	brulais /bʁy.lɛ/	brulait /bʁy.lɛ/	brulions /bʁy.ljɔ̃/	bruliez /bʁy.lje/	brulaient /bʁy.lɛ/
	past historic2	brulai /bʁy.le/	brulas /bʁy.la/	brula /bʁy.la/	brulâmes /bʁy.lam/	brulâtes /bʁy.lat/	brulèrent /bʁy.lɛʁ/
	future	brulerai /bʁyl.ʁe/	bruleras /bʁyl.ʁa/	brulera /bʁyl.ʁa/	brulerons /bʁyl.ʁɔ̃/	brulerez /bʁyl.ʁe/	bruleront /bʁyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	brulerais /bʁyl.ʁɛ/	brulerais /bʁyl.ʁɛ/	brulerait /bʁyl.ʁɛ/	brulerions /bʁy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	bruleriez /bʁy.lə.ʁje/	bruleraient /bʁyl.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	brule /bʁyl/	brules /bʁyl/	brule /bʁyl/	brulions /bʁy.ljɔ̃/	bruliez /bʁy.lje/	brulent /bʁyl/
	imperfect2	brulasse /bʁy.las/	brulasses /bʁy.las/	brulât /bʁy.la/	brulassions /bʁy.la.sjɔ̃/	brulassiez /bʁy.la.sje/	brulassent /bʁy.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	brule /bʁyl/	—	brulons /bʁy.lɔ̃/	brulez /bʁy.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

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

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian brōther. Cognates include West Frisian broer and Mooring North Frisian brouder.

Noun

bruler m (plural breler)

1. (Föhr dialect) brother

   bruler an saster

   brother and sister