fanfaronner

French

Etymology

From fanfaron +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.ne/

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Verb

fanfaronner

1. to boast, swagger

Conjugation

Conjugation of fanfaronner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fanfaronner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fanfaronnant /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fanfaronné /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fanfaronne /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	fanfaronnes /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	fanfaronne /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	fanfaronnons /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɔ̃/	fanfaronnez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.ne/	fanfaronnent /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/
	imperfect	fanfaronnais /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɛ/	fanfaronnais /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɛ/	fanfaronnait /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɛ/	fanfaronnions /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.njɔ̃/	fanfaronniez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nje/	fanfaronnaient /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	fanfaronnai /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.ne/	fanfaronnas /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.na/	fanfaronna /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.na/	fanfaronnâmes /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nam/	fanfaronnâtes /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nat/	fanfaronnèrent /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	fanfaronnerai /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁe/	fanfaronneras /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁa/	fanfaronnera /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁa/	fanfaronnerons /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁɔ̃/	fanfaronnerez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁe/	fanfaronneront /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fanfaronnerais /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁɛ/	fanfaronnerais /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁɛ/	fanfaronnerait /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.ʁɛ/	fanfaronnerions /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	fanfaronneriez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nə.ʁje/	fanfaronneraient /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn.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	fanfaronne /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	fanfaronnes /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	fanfaronne /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	fanfaronnions /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.njɔ̃/	fanfaronniez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nje/	fanfaronnent /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/
	imperfect2	fanfaronnasse /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nas/	fanfaronnasses /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nas/	fanfaronnât /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.na/	fanfaronnassions /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	fanfaronnassiez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.na.sje/	fanfaronnassent /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fanfaronne /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔn/	—	fanfaronnons /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.nɔ̃/	fanfaronnez /fɑ̃.fa.ʁɔ.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• fanfaronnade

Further reading

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