baudir
French
Etymology
From Middle French baudir, from Old French baudir, baldir, from Frankish *baldijan, from Proto-Germanic *balþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“bold”). Cognate with Old English bieldan (“to make bold; embolden”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
baudir
- (transitive) to embolden
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 baudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | baudir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | baudissant /bo.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | baudi /bo.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | baudis /bo.di/ | baudis /bo.di/ | baudit /bo.di/ | baudissons /bo.di.sɔ̃/ | baudissez /bo.di.se/ | baudissent /bo.dis/ |
| imperfect | baudissais /bo.di.sɛ/ | baudissais /bo.di.sɛ/ | baudissait /bo.di.sɛ/ | baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/ | baudissiez /bo.di.sje/ | baudissaient /bo.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | baudis /bo.di/ | baudis /bo.di/ | baudit /bo.di/ | baudîmes /bo.dim/ | baudîtes /bo.dit/ | baudirent /bo.diʁ/ | |
| future | baudirai /bo.di.ʁe/ | baudiras /bo.di.ʁa/ | baudira /bo.di.ʁa/ | baudirons /bo.di.ʁɔ̃/ | baudirez /bo.di.ʁe/ | baudiront /bo.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | baudirais /bo.di.ʁɛ/ | baudirais /bo.di.ʁɛ/ | baudirait /bo.di.ʁɛ/ | baudirions /bo.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | baudiriez /bo.di.ʁje/ | baudiraient /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 | baudisse /bo.dis/ | baudisses /bo.dis/ | baudisse /bo.dis/ | baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/ | baudissiez /bo.di.sje/ | baudissent /bo.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | baudisse /bo.dis/ | baudisses /bo.dis/ | baudît /bo.di/ | baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/ | baudissiez /bo.di.sje/ | baudissent /bo.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | baudis /bo.di/ | — | baudissons /bo.di.sɔ̃/ | baudissez /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). | |||||||
Related terms
- ébaudir
Further reading
- “baudir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.