bigarrer

French

Etymology

From bis (“twice”) + *garrer, from Middle French garre (“of two colors”), but further origin uncertain; possibly borrowed from Occitan or Provençal, ultimately from Germanic. Ultimate source of English bigarade (“bitter orange”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

bigarrer

1. to variegate, to produce a colourful pattern

Conjugation

Conjugation of bigarrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bigarrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bigarrant /bi.ɡa.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bigarré /bi.ɡa.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/	bigarres /bi.ɡaʁ/	bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/	bigarrons /bi.ɡa.ʁɔ̃/	bigarrez /bi.ɡa.ʁe/	bigarrent /bi.ɡaʁ/
	imperfect	bigarrais /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/	bigarrais /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/	bigarrait /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/	bigarrions /bi.ɡa.ʁjɔ̃/	bigarriez /bi.ɡa.ʁje/	bigarraient /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	bigarrai /bi.ɡa.ʁe/	bigarras /bi.ɡa.ʁa/	bigarra /bi.ɡa.ʁa/	bigarrâmes /bi.ɡa.ʁam/	bigarrâtes /bi.ɡa.ʁat/	bigarrèrent /bi.ɡa.ʁɛʁ/
	future	bigarrerai /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁe/	bigarreras /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁa/	bigarrera /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁa/	bigarrerons /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	bigarrerez /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁe/	bigarreront /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bigarrerais /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	bigarrerais /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	bigarrerait /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	bigarrerions /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	bigarreriez /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁje/	bigarreraient /bi.ɡa.ʁə.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	bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/	bigarres /bi.ɡaʁ/	bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/	bigarrions /bi.ɡa.ʁjɔ̃/	bigarriez /bi.ɡa.ʁje/	bigarrent /bi.ɡaʁ/
	imperfect2	bigarrasse /bi.ɡa.ʁas/	bigarrasses /bi.ɡa.ʁas/	bigarrât /bi.ɡa.ʁa/	bigarrassions /bi.ɡa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	bigarrassiez /bi.ɡa.ʁa.sje/	bigarrassent /bi.ɡa.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/	—	bigarrons /bi.ɡa.ʁɔ̃/	bigarrez /bi.ɡa.ʁe/	—
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

• bigarré
• bigarrure

Descendants

• → Spanish: abigarrar

Further reading

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