charabier
French
Etymology
From charabia + -er.
Pronunciation
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Verb
charabier
- (slang) to talk gobbledegook, to babble
Conjugation
Conjugation of charabier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | charabier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | charabiant /ʃa.ʁa.bjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | charabié /ʃa.ʁa.bje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | charabies /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | charabions /ʃa.ʁa.bjɔ̃/ | charabiez /ʃa.ʁa.bje/ | charabient /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ |
| imperfect | charabiais /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/ | charabiais /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/ | charabiait /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/ | charabiions /ʃa.ʁa.bi.jɔ̃/ | charabiiez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.je/ | charabiaient /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | charabiai /ʃa.ʁa.bje/ | charabias /ʃa.ʁa.bja/ | charabia /ʃa.ʁa.bja/ | charabiâmes /ʃa.ʁa.bjam/ | charabiâtes /ʃa.ʁa.bjat/ | charabièrent /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛʁ/ | |
| future | charabierai /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁe/ | charabieras /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁa/ | charabiera /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁa/ | charabierons /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɔ̃/ | charabierez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁe/ | charabieront /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | charabierais /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɛ/ | charabierais /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɛ/ | charabierait /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɛ/ | charabierions /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁjɔ̃/ | charabieriez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁje/ | charabieraient /ʃa.ʁa.bi.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 | charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | charabies /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | charabiions /ʃa.ʁa.bi.jɔ̃/ | charabiiez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.je/ | charabient /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ |
| imperfect2 | charabiasse /ʃa.ʁa.bjas/ | charabiasses /ʃa.ʁa.bjas/ | charabiât /ʃa.ʁa.bja/ | charabiassions /ʃa.ʁa.bja.sjɔ̃/ | charabiassiez /ʃa.ʁa.bja.sje/ | charabiassent /ʃa.ʁa.bjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/ | — | charabions /ʃa.ʁa.bjɔ̃/ | charabiez /ʃa.ʁa.bje/ | — | |
| 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
- “charabier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.