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brouiller
brouiller
French
Verb
brouiller
- to blur
- to mix up, confuse
- to scramble (an egg)
- to set at odds, put (someone) off (something)
- to jam (a transmission), to scramble (a message)
- (reflexive) to become blurred, get mixed up
- (reflexive, ~ avec) to fall out
- (reflexive, meteorology) to cloud over
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Conjugation
Conjugation of brouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | brouiller | avoir brouillé | |||||
| gerund | en brouillant | en ayant brouillé | |||||
| present participle | brouillant /bʁu.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | brouillé /bʁu.je/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | brouille /bʁuj/ |
brouilles /bʁuj/ |
brouille /bʁuj/ |
brouillons /bʁu.jɔ̃/ |
brouillez /bʁu.je/ |
brouillent /bʁuj/ |
| imperfect | brouillais /bʁu.jɛ/ |
brouillais /bʁu.jɛ/ |
brouillait /bʁu.jɛ/ |
brouillions /bʁuj.jɔ̃/ |
brouilliez /bʁuj.je/ |
brouillaient /bʁu.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | brouillai /bʁu.je/ |
brouillas /bʁu.ja/ |
brouilla /bʁu.ja/ |
brouillâmes /bʁu.jam/ |
brouillâtes /bʁu.jat/ |
brouillèrent /bʁu.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | brouillerai /bʁuj.ʁe/ |
brouilleras /bʁuj.ʁa/ |
brouillera /bʁuj.ʁa/ |
brouillerons /bʁuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
brouillerez /bʁuj.ʁe/ |
brouilleront /bʁuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | brouillerais /bʁuj.ʁɛ/ |
brouillerais /bʁuj.ʁɛ/ |
brouillerait /bʁuj.ʁɛ/ |
brouillerions /bʁu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
brouilleriez /bʁu.jə.ʁje/ |
brouilleraient /bʁuj.ʁɛ/ |
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| 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 | brouille /bʁuj/ |
brouilles /bʁuj/ |
brouille /bʁuj/ |
brouillions /bʁuj.jɔ̃/ |
brouilliez /bʁuj.je/ |
brouillent /bʁuj/ |
| imperfect1 |
brouillasse /bʁu.jas/ |
brouillasses /bʁu.jas/ |
brouillât /bʁu.ja/ |
brouillassions /bʁu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
brouillassiez /bʁu.ja.sje/ |
brouillassent /bʁu.jas/ |
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| 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 | – | |
| — | brouille /bʁuj/ |
— | brouillons /bʁu.jɔ̃/ |
brouillez /bʁu.je/ |
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