ébrouer

French

Etymology

From Old French esbroer, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch broeyen, from Proto-Germanic *brōaną (“to singe; to brew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.bʁu.e/

Verb

ébrouer

1. (reflexive) to snort
2. (reflexive, of a bird) to flap its wings

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébrouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébrouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébrouant /e.bʁu.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébroué /e.bʁu.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébroue /e.bʁu/	ébroues /e.bʁu/	ébroue /e.bʁu/	ébrouons /e.bʁu.ɔ̃/	ébrouez /e.bʁu.e/	ébrouent /e.bʁu/
	imperfect	ébrouais /e.bʁu.ɛ/	ébrouais /e.bʁu.ɛ/	ébrouait /e.bʁu.ɛ/	ébrouions /e.bʁu.jɔ̃/	ébrouiez /e.bʁu.je/	ébrouaient /e.bʁu.ɛ/
	past historic2	ébrouai /e.bʁu.e/	ébrouas /e.bʁu.a/	ébroua /e.bʁu.a/	ébrouâmes /e.bʁu.am/	ébrouâtes /e.bʁu.at/	ébrouèrent /e.bʁu.ɛʁ/
	future	ébrouerai /e.bʁu.ʁe/	ébroueras /e.bʁu.ʁa/	ébrouera /e.bʁu.ʁa/	ébrouerons /e.bʁu.ʁɔ̃/	ébrouerez /e.bʁu.ʁe/	ébroueront /e.bʁu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébrouerais /e.bʁu.ʁɛ/	ébrouerais /e.bʁu.ʁɛ/	ébrouerait /e.bʁu.ʁɛ/	ébrouerions /e.bʁu.ʁjɔ̃/	ébroueriez /e.bʁu.ʁje/	ébroueraient /e.bʁu.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	ébroue /e.bʁu/	ébroues /e.bʁu/	ébroue /e.bʁu/	ébrouions /e.bʁu.jɔ̃/	ébrouiez /e.bʁu.je/	ébrouent /e.bʁu/
	imperfect2	ébrouasse /e.bʁu.as/	ébrouasses /e.bʁu.as/	ébrouât /e.bʁu.a/	ébrouassions /e.bʁu.a.sjɔ̃/	ébrouassiez /e.bʁu.a.sje/	ébrouassent /e.bʁu.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébroue /e.bʁu/	—	ébrouons /e.bʁu.ɔ̃/	ébrouez /e.bʁu.e/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ébrouage
• ébrouement

Further reading

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