bidonner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

bidonner

1. to fabricate, to make up (a story)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bidonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bidonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bidonnant /bi.dɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bidonné /bi.dɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bidonne /bi.dɔn/	bidonnes /bi.dɔn/	bidonne /bi.dɔn/	bidonnons /bi.dɔ.nɔ̃/	bidonnez /bi.dɔ.ne/	bidonnent /bi.dɔn/
	imperfect	bidonnais /bi.dɔ.nɛ/	bidonnais /bi.dɔ.nɛ/	bidonnait /bi.dɔ.nɛ/	bidonnions /bi.dɔ.njɔ̃/	bidonniez /bi.dɔ.nje/	bidonnaient /bi.dɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	bidonnai /bi.dɔ.ne/	bidonnas /bi.dɔ.na/	bidonna /bi.dɔ.na/	bidonnâmes /bi.dɔ.nam/	bidonnâtes /bi.dɔ.nat/	bidonnèrent /bi.dɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	bidonnerai /bi.dɔn.ʁe/	bidonneras /bi.dɔn.ʁa/	bidonnera /bi.dɔn.ʁa/	bidonnerons /bi.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/	bidonnerez /bi.dɔn.ʁe/	bidonneront /bi.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bidonnerais /bi.dɔn.ʁɛ/	bidonnerais /bi.dɔn.ʁɛ/	bidonnerait /bi.dɔn.ʁɛ/	bidonnerions /bi.dɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bidonneriez /bi.dɔ.nə.ʁje/	bidonneraient /bi.dɔn.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	bidonne /bi.dɔn/	bidonnes /bi.dɔn/	bidonne /bi.dɔn/	bidonnions /bi.dɔ.njɔ̃/	bidonniez /bi.dɔ.nje/	bidonnent /bi.dɔn/
	imperfect2	bidonnasse /bi.dɔ.nas/	bidonnasses /bi.dɔ.nas/	bidonnât /bi.dɔ.na/	bidonnassions /bi.dɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	bidonnassiez /bi.dɔ.na.sje/	bidonnassent /bi.dɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bidonne /bi.dɔn/	—	bidonnons /bi.dɔ.nɔ̃/	bidonnez /bi.dɔ.ne/	—
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “bidonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.