ébaudir
French
Etymology
From Middle French ébaudir, from Old French esbaudir, esbaldir, equivalent to é- + baudir.
Pronunciation
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Verb
ébaudir
- (obsolete) to amuse, entertain, lighten up
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of ébaudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ébaudir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ébaudissant /e.bo.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ébaudi /e.bo.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ébaudis /e.bo.di/ | ébaudis /e.bo.di/ | ébaudit /e.bo.di/ | ébaudissons /e.bo.di.sɔ̃/ | ébaudissez /e.bo.di.se/ | ébaudissent /e.bo.dis/ |
| imperfect | ébaudissais /e.bo.di.sɛ/ | ébaudissais /e.bo.di.sɛ/ | ébaudissait /e.bo.di.sɛ/ | ébaudissions /e.bo.di.sjɔ̃/ | ébaudissiez /e.bo.di.sje/ | ébaudissaient /e.bo.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ébaudis /e.bo.di/ | ébaudis /e.bo.di/ | ébaudit /e.bo.di/ | ébaudîmes /e.bo.dim/ | ébaudîtes /e.bo.dit/ | ébaudirent /e.bo.diʁ/ | |
| future | ébaudirai /e.bo.di.ʁe/ | ébaudiras /e.bo.di.ʁa/ | ébaudira /e.bo.di.ʁa/ | ébaudirons /e.bo.di.ʁɔ̃/ | ébaudirez /e.bo.di.ʁe/ | ébaudiront /e.bo.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ébaudirais /e.bo.di.ʁɛ/ | ébaudirais /e.bo.di.ʁɛ/ | ébaudirait /e.bo.di.ʁɛ/ | ébaudirions /e.bo.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | ébaudiriez /e.bo.di.ʁje/ | ébaudiraient /e.bo.di.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 | ébaudisse /e.bo.dis/ | ébaudisses /e.bo.dis/ | ébaudisse /e.bo.dis/ | ébaudissions /e.bo.di.sjɔ̃/ | ébaudissiez /e.bo.di.sje/ | ébaudissent /e.bo.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | ébaudisse /e.bo.dis/ | ébaudisses /e.bo.dis/ | ébaudît /e.bo.di/ | ébaudissions /e.bo.di.sjɔ̃/ | ébaudissiez /e.bo.di.sje/ | ébaudissent /e.bo.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ébaudis /e.bo.di/ | — | ébaudissons /e.bo.di.sɔ̃/ | ébaudissez /e.bo.di.se/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ébaudir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ribaude