bretter

See also: Bretter

French

Etymology

From brette +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʁɛ.te/ ~ /bʁe.te/
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Verb

bretter

(intransitive) to pick quarrels, to pick fights
Synonym: ferrailler

Conjugation

Conjugation of bretter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	bretter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	brettant /bʁɛ.tɑ̃/ or /bʁe.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bretté /bʁɛ.te/ or /bʁe.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	brette /bʁɛt/	brettes /bʁɛt/	brette /bʁɛt/	brettons /bʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tɔ̃/	brettez /bʁɛ.te/ or /bʁe.te/	brettent /bʁɛt/
	imperfect	brettais /bʁɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁe.tɛ/	brettais /bʁɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁe.tɛ/	brettait /bʁɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁe.tɛ/	brettions /bʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tjɔ̃/	brettiez /bʁɛ.tje/ or /bʁe.tje/	brettaient /bʁɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁe.tɛ/
	past historic²	brettai /bʁɛ.te/ or /bʁe.te/	brettas /bʁɛ.ta/ or /bʁe.ta/	bretta /bʁɛ.ta/ or /bʁe.ta/	brettâmes /bʁɛ.tam/ or /bʁe.tam/	brettâtes /bʁɛ.tat/ or /bʁe.tat/	brettèrent /bʁɛ.tɛʁ/ or /bʁe.tɛʁ/
	future	bretterai /bʁɛ.tʁe/ or /bʁe.tʁe/	bretteras /bʁɛ.tʁa/ or /bʁe.tʁa/	brettera /bʁɛ.tʁa/ or /bʁe.tʁa/	bretterons /bʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tʁɔ̃/	bretterez /bʁɛ.tʁe/ or /bʁe.tʁe/	bretteront /bʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bretterais /bʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁe.tʁɛ/	bretterais /bʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁe.tʁɛ/	bretterait /bʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁe.tʁɛ/	bretterions /bʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	bretteriez /bʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /bʁe.tə.ʁje/	bretteraient /bʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁe.tʁɛ/
(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	brette /bʁɛt/	brettes /bʁɛt/	brette /bʁɛt/	brettions /bʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tjɔ̃/	brettiez /bʁɛ.tje/ or /bʁe.tje/	brettent /bʁɛt/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	brettasse /bʁɛ.tas/ or /bʁe.tas/	brettasses /bʁɛ.tas/ or /bʁe.tas/	brettât /bʁɛ.ta/ or /bʁe.ta/	brettassions /bʁɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/	brettassiez /bʁɛ.ta.sje/ or /bʁe.ta.sje/	brettassent /bʁɛ.tas/ or /bʁe.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	brette /bʁɛt/	—	brettons /bʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /bʁe.tɔ̃/	brettez /bʁɛ.te/ or /bʁe.te/	—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).