bruiner
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Adjective
bruiner
French
Pronunciation
Verb
bruiner
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “bruiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.