bredouiller

French

Etymology

Possibly from Old French bredeler, variant of bretter / bretonner (“to talk like a Breton”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁə.du.je/

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Verb

bredouiller

1. (transitive, intransitive) to stammer, to mumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of bredouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bredouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bredouillant /bʁə.du.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bredouillé /bʁə.du.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bredouille /bʁə.duj/	bredouilles /bʁə.duj/	bredouille /bʁə.duj/	bredouillons /bʁə.du.jɔ̃/	bredouillez /bʁə.du.je/	bredouillent /bʁə.duj/
	imperfect	bredouillais /bʁə.du.jɛ/	bredouillais /bʁə.du.jɛ/	bredouillait /bʁə.du.jɛ/	bredouillions /bʁə.duj.jɔ̃/	bredouilliez /bʁə.duj.je/	bredouillaient /bʁə.du.jɛ/
	past historic2	bredouillai /bʁə.du.je/	bredouillas /bʁə.du.ja/	bredouilla /bʁə.du.ja/	bredouillâmes /bʁə.du.jam/	bredouillâtes /bʁə.du.jat/	bredouillèrent /bʁə.du.jɛʁ/
	future	bredouillerai /bʁə.duj.ʁe/	bredouilleras /bʁə.duj.ʁa/	bredouillera /bʁə.duj.ʁa/	bredouillerons /bʁə.duj.ʁɔ̃/	bredouillerez /bʁə.duj.ʁe/	bredouilleront /bʁə.duj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bredouillerais /bʁə.duj.ʁɛ/	bredouillerais /bʁə.duj.ʁɛ/	bredouillerait /bʁə.duj.ʁɛ/	bredouillerions /bʁə.du.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	bredouilleriez /bʁə.du.jə.ʁje/	bredouilleraient /bʁə.duj.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	bredouille /bʁə.duj/	bredouilles /bʁə.duj/	bredouille /bʁə.duj/	bredouillions /bʁə.duj.jɔ̃/	bredouilliez /bʁə.duj.je/	bredouillent /bʁə.duj/
	imperfect2	bredouillasse /bʁə.du.jas/	bredouillasses /bʁə.du.jas/	bredouillât /bʁə.du.ja/	bredouillassions /bʁə.du.ja.sjɔ̃/	bredouillassiez /bʁə.du.ja.sje/	bredouillassent /bʁə.du.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bredouille /bʁə.duj/	—	bredouillons /bʁə.du.jɔ̃/	bredouillez /bʁə.du.je/	—
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

• bredouille

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• débrouiller