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braire
braire
French
Verb
braire
- bray (to make the cry of a donkey)
- (figuratively, by extension) to shout
- (Belgium, Northern France, figuratively, by extension) to cry, to weep
Conjugation
This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -bray- root: *je brayis, *que nous brayissions etc. Forms using the ‘a’ endings of verbs in -er are now used when there is an unavoidable need to use these forms. The root -brais- was used instead of -bray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.
Conjugation of braire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | braire | avoir brait | |||||
| gerund | en brayant | en ayant brait | |||||
| present participle | brayant /bʁɛ.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | brait /bʁɛ/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | brais /bʁɛ/ |
brais /bʁɛ/ |
brait /bʁɛ/ |
brayons /bʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
brayez /bʁɛ.je/ |
braient /bʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | brayais /bʁɛ.jɛ/ |
brayais /bʁɛ.jɛ/ |
brayait /bʁɛ.jɛ/ |
brayions /bʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
brayiez /bʁɛj.je/ |
brayaient /bʁɛ.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | brayai /bʁɛ.je/ |
brayas /bʁɛ.ja/ |
braya /bʁɛ.ja/ |
brayâmes /bʁɛ.jam/ |
brayâtes /bʁɛ.jat/ |
brayèrent /bʁɛ.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | brairai /bʁɛ.ʁe/ |
brairas /bʁɛ.ʁa/ |
braira /bʁɛ.ʁa/ |
brairons /bʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
brairez /bʁɛ.ʁe/ |
brairont /bʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | brairais /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
brairais /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
brairait /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
brairions /bʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
brairiez /bʁɛ.ʁje/ |
brairaient /bʁɛ.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 | braie /bʁɛ/ |
braies /bʁɛ/ |
braie /bʁɛ/ |
brayions /bʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
brayiez /bʁɛj.je/ |
braient /bʁɛ/ |
| imperfect1 |
brayasse /bʁɛ.jas/ |
brayasses /bʁɛ.jas/ |
brayât /bʁɛ.ja/ |
brayassions /bʁɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
brayassiez /bʁɛ.ja.sje/ |
brayassent /bʁɛ.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 | – | |
| — | brais /bʁɛ/ |
— | brayons /bʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
brayez /bʁɛ.je/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Noun
braire m (plural braires)
- (obsolete) bray (noise made by a donkey)