ronchonner

French

Etymology

Variant of dialectal roncher, from Latin roncāre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.ne/

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Verb

ronchonner

1. (intransitive) to grumble, grouse
   • 2023, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, L'iris blanc [Asterix and the White Iris] (Asterix), Vanves: Hachette, →ISBN, page 15:

     Tu pourrais au moins lui répondre au lieu de ronchonner comme un sanglier mal éduqué !

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ronchonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ronchonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ronchonnant /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ronchonné /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ronchonne /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	ronchonnes /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	ronchonne /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	ronchonnons /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	ronchonnez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.ne/	ronchonnent /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/
	imperfect	ronchonnais /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɛ/	ronchonnais /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɛ/	ronchonnait /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɛ/	ronchonnions /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	ronchonniez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nje/	ronchonnaient /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	ronchonnai /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.ne/	ronchonnas /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.na/	ronchonna /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.na/	ronchonnâmes /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nam/	ronchonnâtes /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nat/	ronchonnèrent /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	ronchonnerai /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁe/	ronchonneras /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁa/	ronchonnera /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁa/	ronchonnerons /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/	ronchonnerez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁe/	ronchonneront /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ronchonnerais /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	ronchonnerais /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	ronchonnerait /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	ronchonnerions /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ronchonneriez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nə.ʁje/	ronchonneraient /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn.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	ronchonne /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	ronchonnes /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	ronchonne /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	ronchonnions /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	ronchonniez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nje/	ronchonnent /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/
	imperfect2	ronchonnasse /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nas/	ronchonnasses /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nas/	ronchonnât /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.na/	ronchonnassions /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	ronchonnassiez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.na.sje/	ronchonnassent /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ronchonne /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔn/	—	ronchonnons /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	ronchonnez /ʁɔ̃.ʃɔ.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).

Related terms

• ronchon
• ronchonneur
• ronchonneux

Further reading

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