ébourgeonner

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ bourgeon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.ne/

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Verb

ébourgeonner

1. to remove superfluous buds from; debud

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébourgeonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébourgeonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébourgeonnant /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébourgeonné /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébourgeonne /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	ébourgeonnes /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	ébourgeonne /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	ébourgeonnons /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɔ̃/	ébourgeonnez /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.ne/	ébourgeonnent /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/
	imperfect	ébourgeonnais /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɛ/	ébourgeonnais /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɛ/	ébourgeonnait /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɛ/	ébourgeonnions /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.njɔ̃/	ébourgeonniez /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nje/	ébourgeonnaient /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	ébourgeonnai /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.ne/	ébourgeonnas /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.na/	ébourgeonna /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.na/	ébourgeonnâmes /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nam/	ébourgeonnâtes /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nat/	ébourgeonnèrent /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	ébourgeonnerai /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁe/	ébourgeonneras /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁa/	ébourgeonnera /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁa/	ébourgeonnerons /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁɔ̃/	ébourgeonnerez /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁe/	ébourgeonneront /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébourgeonnerais /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁɛ/	ébourgeonnerais /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁɛ/	ébourgeonnerait /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.ʁɛ/	ébourgeonnerions /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ébourgeonneriez /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nə.ʁje/	ébourgeonneraient /e.buʁ.ʒɔn.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	ébourgeonne /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	ébourgeonnes /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	ébourgeonne /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	ébourgeonnions /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.njɔ̃/	ébourgeonniez /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nje/	ébourgeonnent /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/
	imperfect2	ébourgeonnasse /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nas/	ébourgeonnasses /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nas/	ébourgeonnât /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.na/	ébourgeonnassions /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	ébourgeonnassiez /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.na.sje/	ébourgeonnassent /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébourgeonne /e.buʁ.ʒɔn/	—	ébourgeonnons /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.nɔ̃/	ébourgeonnez /e.buʁ.ʒɔ.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

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