grommeler
French
Etymology
From Middle French grommeler, from Old French grumeler (“to murmur, grumble”), from Middle Dutch grommelen (“to murmur, mutter, grunt”), frequentative of Middle Dutch grommen, related to Low German grummeln (“to grumble”), German grummeln (“to grumble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɔm.le/
Verb
grommeler
- (clarification of this definition is needed) to grumble
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il grommèle rather than *il grommele. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of grommeler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | grommeler | avoir grommelé | |||||
| gerund | en grommelant | en ayant grommelé | |||||
| present participle | grommelant /ɡʁɔm.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | grommelé /ɡʁɔm.le/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | grommèle /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
grommèles /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
grommèle /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
grommelons /ɡʁɔm.lɔ̃/ |
grommelez /ɡʁɔm.le/ |
grommèlent /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
| imperfect | grommelais /ɡʁɔm.lɛ/ |
grommelais /ɡʁɔm.lɛ/ |
grommelait /ɡʁɔm.lɛ/ |
grommelions /ɡʁɔ.mə.ljɔ̃/ |
grommeliez /ɡʁɔ.mə.lje/ |
grommelaient /ɡʁɔm.lɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | grommelai /ɡʁɔm.le/ |
grommelas /ɡʁɔm.la/ |
grommela /ɡʁɔm.la/ |
grommelâmes /ɡʁɔm.lam/ |
grommelâtes /ɡʁɔm.lat/ |
grommelèrent /ɡʁɔm.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | grommèlerai /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁe/ |
grommèleras /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁa/ |
grommèlera /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁa/ |
grommèlerons /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
grommèlerez /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁe/ |
grommèleront /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | grommèlerais /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
grommèlerais /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
grommèlerait /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
grommèlerions /ɡʁɔ.mɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
grommèleriez /ɡʁɔ.mɛ.lə.ʁje/ |
grommèleraient /ɡʁɔ.mɛl.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 | grommèle /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
grommèles /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
grommèle /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
grommelions /ɡʁɔ.mə.ljɔ̃/ |
grommeliez /ɡʁɔ.mə.lje/ |
grommèlent /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
| imperfect1 | grommelasse /ɡʁɔm.las/ |
grommelasses /ɡʁɔm.las/ |
grommelât /ɡʁɔm.la/ |
grommelassions /ɡʁɔm.la.sjɔ̃/ |
grommelassiez /ɡʁɔm.la.sje/ |
grommelassent /ɡʁɔm.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 | – | |
| — | grommèle /ɡʁɔ.mɛl/ |
— | grommelons /ɡʁɔm.lɔ̃/ |
grommelez /ɡʁɔm.le/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “grommeler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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