bondir

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *bombitire, formed from Latin bombus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.diʁ/

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Verb

bondir

1. to bounce, spring, jump

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
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

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.

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Old French

Verb

bondir

1. to keep; to retain