fronder

French

Etymology

From fronde.

Pronunciation

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Verb

fronder

1. (dated) to slingshot
2. (figurative) to critique

Conjugation

Conjugation of fronder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fronder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frondant /fʁɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		frondé /fʁɔ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fronde /fʁɔ̃d/	frondes /fʁɔ̃d/	fronde /fʁɔ̃d/	frondons /fʁɔ̃.dɔ̃/	frondez /fʁɔ̃.de/	frondent /fʁɔ̃d/
	imperfect	frondais /fʁɔ̃.dɛ/	frondais /fʁɔ̃.dɛ/	frondait /fʁɔ̃.dɛ/	frondions /fʁɔ̃.djɔ̃/	frondiez /fʁɔ̃.dje/	frondaient /fʁɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	frondai /fʁɔ̃.de/	frondas /fʁɔ̃.da/	fronda /fʁɔ̃.da/	frondâmes /fʁɔ̃.dam/	frondâtes /fʁɔ̃.dat/	frondèrent /fʁɔ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	fronderai /fʁɔ̃.dʁe/	fronderas /fʁɔ̃.dʁa/	frondera /fʁɔ̃.dʁa/	fronderons /fʁɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	fronderez /fʁɔ̃.dʁe/	fronderont /fʁɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fronderais /fʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/	fronderais /fʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/	fronderait /fʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/	fronderions /fʁɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	fronderiez /fʁɔ̃.də.ʁje/	fronderaient /fʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	fronde /fʁɔ̃d/	frondes /fʁɔ̃d/	fronde /fʁɔ̃d/	frondions /fʁɔ̃.djɔ̃/	frondiez /fʁɔ̃.dje/	frondent /fʁɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	frondasse /fʁɔ̃.das/	frondasses /fʁɔ̃.das/	frondât /fʁɔ̃.da/	frondassions /fʁɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	frondassiez /fʁɔ̃.da.sje/	frondassent /fʁɔ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fronde /fʁɔ̃d/	—	frondons /fʁɔ̃.dɔ̃/	frondez /fʁɔ̃.de/	—
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

• fronde
• frondeur

Further reading

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