arborer

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian arborare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.bɔ.ʁe/

Verb

arborer

1. to sport (clothes, a badge etc.)
2. to wear (a facial expression e.g. a smile, a frown)
3. to fly, display (a flag)

Conjugation

Conjugation of arborer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	arborer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	arborant /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arboré /aʁ.bɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	arbore /aʁ.bɔʁ/	arbores /aʁ.bɔʁ/	arbore /aʁ.bɔʁ/	arborons /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/	arborez /aʁ.bɔ.ʁe/	arborent /aʁ.bɔʁ/
	imperfect	arborais /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɛ/	arborais /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɛ/	arborait /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɛ/	arborions /aʁ.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	arboriez /aʁ.bɔ.ʁje/	arboraient /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	arborai /aʁ.bɔ.ʁe/	arboras /aʁ.bɔ.ʁa/	arbora /aʁ.bɔ.ʁa/	arborâmes /aʁ.bɔ.ʁam/	arborâtes /aʁ.bɔ.ʁat/	arborèrent /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	arborerai /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	arboreras /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	arborera /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	arborerons /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	arborerez /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	arboreront /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	arborerais /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	arborerais /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	arborerait /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	arborerions /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	arboreriez /aʁ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	arboreraient /aʁ.bɔ.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	arbore /aʁ.bɔʁ/	arbores /aʁ.bɔʁ/	arbore /aʁ.bɔʁ/	arborions /aʁ.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	arboriez /aʁ.bɔ.ʁje/	arborent /aʁ.bɔʁ/
	imperfect2	arborasse /aʁ.bɔ.ʁas/	arborasses /aʁ.bɔ.ʁas/	arborât /aʁ.bɔ.ʁa/	arborassions /aʁ.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	arborassiez /aʁ.bɔ.ʁa.sje/	arborassent /aʁ.bɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	arbore /aʁ.bɔʁ/	—	arborons /aʁ.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/	arborez /aʁ.bɔ.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).

Further reading

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