gronder

French

Etymology

From Latin grundīre (“to grunt”), a form of grunnīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɔ̃.de/

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Verb

gronder

1. (intransitive) to rumble, roar; to growl
2. (transitive) to tell off, scold, chew out

Conjugation

Conjugation of gronder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gronder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grondant /ɡʁɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grondé /ɡʁɔ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/	grondes /ɡʁɔ̃d/	gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/	grondons /ɡʁɔ̃.dɔ̃/	grondez /ɡʁɔ̃.de/	grondent /ɡʁɔ̃d/
	imperfect	grondais /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/	grondais /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/	grondait /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/	grondions /ɡʁɔ̃.djɔ̃/	grondiez /ɡʁɔ̃.dje/	grondaient /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	grondai /ɡʁɔ̃.de/	grondas /ɡʁɔ̃.da/	gronda /ɡʁɔ̃.da/	grondâmes /ɡʁɔ̃.dam/	grondâtes /ɡʁɔ̃.dat/	grondèrent /ɡʁɔ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	gronderai /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁe/	gronderas /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁa/	grondera /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁa/	gronderons /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	gronderez /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁe/	gronderont /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gronderais /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/	gronderais /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/	gronderait /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/	gronderions /ɡʁɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	gronderiez /ɡʁɔ̃.də.ʁje/	gronderaient /ɡʁɔ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/	grondes /ɡʁɔ̃d/	gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/	grondions /ɡʁɔ̃.djɔ̃/	grondiez /ɡʁɔ̃.dje/	grondent /ɡʁɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	grondasse /ɡʁɔ̃.das/	grondasses /ɡʁɔ̃.das/	grondât /ɡʁɔ̃.da/	grondassions /ɡʁɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	grondassiez /ɡʁɔ̃.da.sje/	grondassent /ɡʁɔ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gronde /ɡʁɔ̃d/	—	grondons /ɡʁɔ̃.dɔ̃/	grondez /ɡʁɔ̃.de/	—
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

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