barbeler
French
Etymology
From Old French barbel + -er.
Pronunciation
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Verb
barbeler
- to surround with barbed wire
- …il [le Français] barbèle au besoin son jardin, et sa première débauche d'imagination est pour la clôture. (Colette, Gigi, 1944)
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of barbeler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | barbeler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | barbelant /baʁ.bə.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | barbelé /baʁ.bə.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/ | barbelles or barbèles /baʁ.bɛl/ | barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/ | barbelons /baʁ.bə.lɔ̃/ | barbelez /baʁ.bə.le/ | barbellent or barbèlent /baʁ.bɛl/ |
| imperfect | barbelais /baʁ.bə.lɛ/ | barbelais /baʁ.bə.lɛ/ | barbelait /baʁ.bə.lɛ/ | barbelions /baʁ.bə.ljɔ̃/ | barbeliez /baʁ.bə.lje/ | barbelaient /baʁ.bə.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | barbelai /baʁ.bə.le/ | barbelas /baʁ.bə.la/ | barbela /baʁ.bə.la/ | barbelâmes /baʁ.bə.lam/ | barbelâtes /baʁ.bə.lat/ | barbelèrent /baʁ.bə.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | barbellerai or barbèlerai /baʁ.bɛl.ʁe/ | barbelleras or barbèleras /baʁ.bɛl.ʁa/ | barbellera or barbèlera /baʁ.bɛl.ʁa/ | barbellerons or barbèlerons /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | barbellerez or barbèlerez /baʁ.bɛl.ʁe/ | barbelleront or barbèleront /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | barbellerais or barbèlerais /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɛ/ | barbellerais or barbèlerais /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɛ/ | barbellerait or barbèlerait /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɛ/ | barbellerions or barbèlerions /baʁ.bɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /baʁ.be.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | barbelleriez or barbèleriez /baʁ.bɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /baʁ.be.lə.ʁje/ | barbelleraient or barbèleraient /baʁ.bɛl.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 | barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/ | barbelles or barbèles /baʁ.bɛl/ | barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/ | barbelions /baʁ.bə.ljɔ̃/ | barbeliez /baʁ.bə.lje/ | barbellent or barbèlent /baʁ.bɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | barbelasse /baʁ.bə.las/ | barbelasses /baʁ.bə.las/ | barbelât /baʁ.bə.la/ | barbelassions /baʁ.bə.la.sjɔ̃/ | barbelassiez /baʁ.bə.la.sje/ | barbelassent /baʁ.bə.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/ | — | barbelons /baʁ.bə.lɔ̃/ | barbelez /baʁ.bə.le/ | — | |
| 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
- barbelé
References
- “barbeler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “barbeler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.