branler
French
Etymology
From Middle French bransler, from Old French bransler (“to shake (a sword at), move”), a contracted form of Old French brandeler (“to wobble”), from Vulgar Latin *brandus (“firebrand, flaming sword, sword”), from ultimately from *brand (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning, flash, firebrand, flaming sword”).
The supposed intermediary form, Late Latin *brandulare, also from Frankish *brand (“sword”), is unlikely given that the suffix -ulare had already fallen into disuse (i.e. was no longer productive) at the time of borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɑ̃.le/
Verb
branler
- (transitive) to shake
- (transitive) to touch (some work)
- Comme il n'a rien branlé, il reste encore la moitié du boulot à faire.
- Since he hasn't touched anything, there's still half the work left to do.
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- (transitive, vulgar, slang) to do
- Qu'est-ce que tu branles ?
- What the fuck are you up to?
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- (transitive, vulgar, slang) to masturbate (another person)
- Elle m'a branlé, puis j'ai joui.
- She wanked me off, then I came.
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- (reflexive, vulgar, se branler) to masturbate
Conjugation
Conjugation of branler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | branler | avoir branlé | |||||
| gerund | en branlant | en ayant branlé | |||||
| present participle | branlant /bʁɑ̃.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | branlé /bʁɑ̃.le/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | branle /bʁɑ̃l/ |
branles /bʁɑ̃l/ |
branle /bʁɑ̃l/ |
branlons /bʁɑ̃.lɔ̃/ |
branlez /bʁɑ̃.le/ |
branlent /bʁɑ̃l/ |
| imperfect | branlais /bʁɑ̃.lɛ/ |
branlais /bʁɑ̃.lɛ/ |
branlait /bʁɑ̃.lɛ/ |
branlions /bʁɑ̃.ljɔ̃/ |
branliez /bʁɑ̃.lje/ |
branlaient /bʁɑ̃.lɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | branlai /bʁɑ̃.le/ |
branlas /bʁɑ̃.la/ |
branla /bʁɑ̃.la/ |
branlâmes /bʁɑ̃.lam/ |
branlâtes /bʁɑ̃.lat/ |
branlèrent /bʁɑ̃.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | branlerai /bʁɑ̃l.ʁe/ |
branleras /bʁɑ̃l.ʁa/ |
branlera /bʁɑ̃l.ʁa/ |
branlerons /bʁɑ̃l.ʁɔ̃/ |
branlerez /bʁɑ̃l.ʁe/ |
branleront /bʁɑ̃l.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | branlerais /bʁɑ̃l.ʁɛ/ |
branlerais /bʁɑ̃l.ʁɛ/ |
branlerait /bʁɑ̃l.ʁɛ/ |
branlerions /bʁɑ̃.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
branleriez /bʁɑ̃.lə.ʁje/ |
branleraient /bʁɑ̃l.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | branle /bʁɑ̃l/ |
branles /bʁɑ̃l/ |
branle /bʁɑ̃l/ |
branlions /bʁɑ̃.ljɔ̃/ |
branliez /bʁɑ̃.lje/ |
branlent /bʁɑ̃l/ |
| imperfect1 | branlasse /bʁɑ̃.las/ |
branlasses /bʁɑ̃.las/ |
branlât /bʁɑ̃.la/ |
branlassions /bʁɑ̃.la.sjɔ̃/ |
branlassiez /bʁɑ̃.la.sje/ |
branlassent /bʁɑ̃.las/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | branle /bʁɑ̃l/ |
— | branlons /bʁɑ̃.lɔ̃/ |
branlez /bʁɑ̃.le/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “branler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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