broncher
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *bruncāre, *bruncus, a cross of Latin broccus (“projecting, pointed”) and truncus (“maimed, docked, truncated”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]broncher
- to stumble
- to flinch
- (colloquial) to budge
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of broncher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | broncher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bronchant /bʁɔ̃.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bronché /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
bronches /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
bronchons /bʁɔ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
bronchez /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/ |
bronchent /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect | bronchais /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/ |
bronchais /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/ |
bronchait /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/ |
bronchions /bʁɔ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
bronchiez /bʁɔ̃.ʃje/ |
bronchaient /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bronchai /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/ |
bronchas /bʁɔ̃.ʃa/ |
broncha /bʁɔ̃.ʃa/ |
bronchâmes /bʁɔ̃.ʃam/ |
bronchâtes /bʁɔ̃.ʃat/ |
bronchèrent /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | broncherai /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
broncheras /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
bronchera /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
broncherons /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
broncherez /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
broncheront /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | broncherais /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
broncherais /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
broncherait /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
broncherions /bʁɔ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
broncheriez /bʁɔ̃.ʃə.ʁje/ |
broncheraient /bʁɔ̃ʃ.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 | bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
bronches /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
bronchions /bʁɔ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
bronchiez /bʁɔ̃.ʃje/ |
bronchent /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | bronchasse /bʁɔ̃.ʃas/ |
bronchasses /bʁɔ̃.ʃas/ |
bronchât /bʁɔ̃.ʃa/ |
bronchassions /bʁɔ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
bronchassiez /bʁɔ̃.ʃa.sje/ |
bronchassent /bʁɔ̃.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/ |
— | bronchons /bʁɔ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
bronchez /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “broncher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “bronco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28