vrombir

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French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare vroum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vʁɔ̃.biʁ/
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Verb

vrombir

  1. (intransitive) to hum, whirr
    • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
      L’essaim pourrait piquer : il n’est programmé que pour vrombir et vibrer, ce qui suffit, étrangement, à les décourager d’approcher des ouvertures.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of vrombir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple vrombir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple vrombissant
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle vrombi
/vʁɔ̃.bi/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present vrombis
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombis
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombit
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombissons
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɔ̃/ 		vrombissez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.se/ 		vrombissent
/vʁɔ̃.bis/
imperfect vrombissais
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ 		vrombissais
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ 		vrombissait
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/ 		vrombissions
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sjɔ̃/ 		vrombissiez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sje/ 		vrombissaient
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɛ/
past historic2 vrombis
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombis
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombit
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombîmes
/vʁɔ̃.bim/ 		vrombîtes
/vʁɔ̃.bit/ 		vrombirent
/vʁɔ̃.biʁ/
future vrombirai
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁe/ 		vrombiras
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁa/ 		vrombira
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁa/ 		vrombirons
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɔ̃/ 		vrombirez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁe/ 		vrombiront
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional vrombirais
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɛ/ 		vrombirais
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɛ/ 		vrombirait
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁɛ/ 		vrombirions
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		vrombiriez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.ʁje/ 		vrombiraient
/vʁɔ̃.bi.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 vrombisse
/vʁɔ̃.bis/ 		vrombisses
/vʁɔ̃.bis/ 		vrombisse
/vʁɔ̃.bis/ 		vrombissions
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sjɔ̃/ 		vrombissiez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sje/ 		vrombissent
/vʁɔ̃.bis/
imperfect2 vrombisse
/vʁɔ̃.bis/ 		vrombisses
/vʁɔ̃.bis/ 		vrombît
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		vrombissions
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sjɔ̃/ 		vrombissiez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sje/ 		vrombissent
/vʁɔ̃.bis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — vrombis
/vʁɔ̃.bi/ 		— vrombissons
/vʁɔ̃.bi.sɔ̃/ 		vrombissez
/vʁɔ̃.bi.se/ 		—
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).

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