bougonner
French, verb/bu.ɡɔ.ne/
bougonner is spelled B-O-U-G-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bougonner is a French verb meaning “to grumble (complain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gronder entre ses dents”.
What does bougonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grumble (complain)
- 2
to sulk
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gronder entre ses dents. 2. Faire la tête. 3. (transitif) Réprimander quelqu'un, lui faire des reproches, lui chercher querelle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bougonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bougonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bougonné participle past
- bougonne first-person indicative present
- bougonnes indicative present second-person
- bougonnons first-person indicative plural
- bougonnez indicative plural present
- bougonnent indicative plural present
- bougonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- bougonnait imperfect indicative singular
- bougonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- bougonniez imperfect indicative plural
- bougonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- bougonnai first-person historic indicative
- bougonnas historic indicative past
- bougonna historic indicative past
- bougonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bougonner?
- /bu.ɡɔ.ne/
- \bu.ɡɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bougonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bougonner in French?
bougonner appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).