bondir
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *bombitire, formed from Latin bombus.
Pronunciation
Verb
bondir
Conjugation
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-.
Conjugation of bondir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | bondir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | bondissant /bɔ̃.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bondi /bɔ̃.di/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | bondis /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondis /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondit /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondissons /bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
bondissez /bɔ̃.di.se/ |
bondissent /bɔ̃.dis/ |
imperfect | bondissais /bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ |
bondissais /bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ |
bondissait /bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ |
bondissions /bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
bondissiez /bɔ̃.di.sje/ |
bondissaient /bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | bondis /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondis /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondit /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondîmes /bɔ̃.dim/ |
bondîtes /bɔ̃.dit/ |
bondirent /bɔ̃.diʁ/ | |
future | bondirai /bɔ̃.di.ʁe/ |
bondiras /bɔ̃.di.ʁa/ |
bondira /bɔ̃.di.ʁa/ |
bondirons /bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
bondirez /bɔ̃.di.ʁe/ |
bondiront /bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | bondirais /bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
bondirais /bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
bondirait /bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
bondirions /bɔ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bondiriez /bɔ̃.di.ʁje/ |
bondiraient /bɔ̃.di.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 | bondisse /bɔ̃.dis/ |
bondisses /bɔ̃.dis/ |
bondisse /bɔ̃.dis/ |
bondissions /bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
bondissiez /bɔ̃.di.sje/ |
bondissent /bɔ̃.dis/ |
imperfect2 | bondisse /bɔ̃.dis/ |
bondisses /bɔ̃.dis/ |
bondît /bɔ̃.di/ |
bondissions /bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
bondissiez /bɔ̃.di.sje/ |
bondissent /bɔ̃.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | bondis /bɔ̃.di/ |
— | bondissons /bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
bondissez /bɔ̃.di.se/ |
— | |
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). |
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Further reading
- “bondir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Verb
bondir