French

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic, compare vroum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vʁɔ̃.biʁ/
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Verb

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vrombir

  1. (intransitive) to hum, whirr
    • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
      L’essaim pourrait piquer : il n’est programmé que pour vrombir et vibrer, ce qui suffit, étrangement, à les décourager d’approcher des ouvertures.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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