bruiner

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

bruiner

1. comparative degree of bruin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɥi.ne/

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Verb

bruiner

1. (impersonal) to drizzle

Conjugation

This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of bruiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bruiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bruinant /bʁɥi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bruiné /bʁɥi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	bruine /bʁɥin/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	bruinait /bʁɥi.nɛ/	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	bruina /bʁɥi.na/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	bruinera /bʁɥin.ʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	bruinerait /bʁɥin.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	—	—	bruine /bʁɥin/	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	bruinât /bʁɥi.na/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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

• bruine
• bruineux

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• buriner