broncher

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bruncāre, *bruncus, a cross of Latin broccus (“projecting, pointed”) and truncus (“maimed, docked, truncated”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

broncher

1. to stumble
2. to flinch
3. (colloquial) to budge

Conjugation

Conjugation of broncher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	broncher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bronchant /bʁɔ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bronché /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	bronches /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	bronchons /bʁɔ̃.ʃɔ̃/	bronchez /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/	bronchent /bʁɔ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	bronchais /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/	bronchais /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/	bronchait /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/	bronchions /bʁɔ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	bronchiez /bʁɔ̃.ʃje/	bronchaient /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	bronchai /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/	bronchas /bʁɔ̃.ʃa/	broncha /bʁɔ̃.ʃa/	bronchâmes /bʁɔ̃.ʃam/	bronchâtes /bʁɔ̃.ʃat/	bronchèrent /bʁɔ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	broncherai /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁe/	broncheras /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁa/	bronchera /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁa/	broncherons /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	broncherez /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁe/	broncheront /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	broncherais /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	broncherais /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	broncherait /bʁɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	broncherions /bʁɔ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	broncheriez /bʁɔ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	broncheraient /bʁɔ̃ʃ.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	bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	bronches /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	bronchions /bʁɔ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	bronchiez /bʁɔ̃.ʃje/	bronchent /bʁɔ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	bronchasse /bʁɔ̃.ʃas/	bronchasses /bʁɔ̃.ʃas/	bronchât /bʁɔ̃.ʃa/	bronchassions /bʁɔ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	bronchassiez /bʁɔ̃.ʃa.sje/	bronchassent /bʁɔ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bronche /bʁɔ̃ʃ/	—	bronchons /bʁɔ̃.ʃɔ̃/	bronchez /bʁɔ̃.ʃe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• il n'y a si bon cheval qui ne bronche

Further reading

• “broncher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “bronco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024