From bis (“twice”) + *garrer, from Middle French garre (“of two colors”), but further origin uncertain; possibly borrowed from Occitan or Provençal, ultimately from Germanic. Ultimate source of English bigarade (“bitter orange”).[1]
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bigarrer
| infinitive | simple | bigarrer | |||||
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| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bigarrant /bi.ɡa.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bigarré /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
bigarres /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
bigarrons /bi.ɡa.ʁɔ̃/ |
bigarrez /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ |
bigarrent /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
| imperfect | bigarrais /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ |
bigarrais /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ |
bigarrait /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ |
bigarrions /bi.ɡa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bigarriez /bi.ɡa.ʁje/ |
bigarraient /bi.ɡa.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bigarrai /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ |
bigarras /bi.ɡa.ʁa/ |
bigarra /bi.ɡa.ʁa/ |
bigarrâmes /bi.ɡa.ʁam/ |
bigarrâtes /bi.ɡa.ʁat/ |
bigarrèrent /bi.ɡa.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | bigarrerai /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁe/ |
bigarreras /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁa/ |
bigarrera /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁa/ |
bigarrerons /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
bigarrerez /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁe/ |
bigarreront /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bigarrerais /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
bigarrerais /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
bigarrerait /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
bigarrerions /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bigarreriez /bi.ɡa.ʁə.ʁje/ |
bigarreraient /bi.ɡa.ʁə.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 | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
bigarres /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
bigarrions /bi.ɡa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bigarriez /bi.ɡa.ʁje/ |
bigarrent /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | bigarrasse /bi.ɡa.ʁas/ |
bigarrasses /bi.ɡa.ʁas/ |
bigarrât /bi.ɡa.ʁa/ |
bigarrassions /bi.ɡa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
bigarrassiez /bi.ɡa.ʁa.sje/ |
bigarrassent /bi.ɡa.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bigarre /bi.ɡaʁ/ |
— | bigarrons /bi.ɡa.ʁɔ̃/ |
bigarrez /bi.ɡa.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||