gober
See also: Gober
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“muzzle, snout, beak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (“eat, masticate (of animals)”).[1] Compare Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, bill”) and English gob.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɔ.be/
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Verb
gober[2]
- to swallow whole
- (figuratively) to believe easily, without evidence; to buy
- (France, slang) to ingest drugs, especially ecstasy or LSD
Conjugation
Conjugation of gober (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gober | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gobant /ɡɔ.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gobé /ɡɔ.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | gobe /ɡɔb/ | gobes /ɡɔb/ | gobe /ɡɔb/ | gobons /ɡɔ.bɔ̃/ | gobez /ɡɔ.be/ | gobent /ɡɔb/ |
| imperfect | gobais /ɡɔ.bɛ/ | gobais /ɡɔ.bɛ/ | gobait /ɡɔ.bɛ/ | gobions /ɡɔ.bjɔ̃/ | gobiez /ɡɔ.bje/ | gobaient /ɡɔ.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gobai /ɡɔ.be/ | gobas /ɡɔ.ba/ | goba /ɡɔ.ba/ | gobâmes /ɡɔ.bam/ | gobâtes /ɡɔ.bat/ | gobèrent /ɡɔ.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | goberai /ɡɔ.bʁe/ | goberas /ɡɔ.bʁa/ | gobera /ɡɔ.bʁa/ | goberons /ɡɔ.bʁɔ̃/ | goberez /ɡɔ.bʁe/ | goberont /ɡɔ.bʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | goberais /ɡɔ.bʁɛ/ | goberais /ɡɔ.bʁɛ/ | goberait /ɡɔ.bʁɛ/ | goberions /ɡɔ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ | goberiez /ɡɔ.bə.ʁje/ | goberaient /ɡɔ.bʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | gobe /ɡɔb/ | gobes /ɡɔb/ | gobe /ɡɔb/ | gobions /ɡɔ.bjɔ̃/ | gobiez /ɡɔ.bje/ | gobent /ɡɔb/ |
| imperfect2 | gobasse /ɡɔ.bas/ | gobasses /ɡɔ.bas/ | gobât /ɡɔ.ba/ | gobassions /ɡɔ.ba.sjɔ̃/ | gobassiez /ɡɔ.ba.sje/ | gobassent /ɡɔ.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gobe /ɡɔb/ | — | gobons /ɡɔ.bɔ̃/ | gobez /ɡɔ.be/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- gobeur
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*gobbo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 164
- “gober”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.