baragouiner
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/
Verb
baragouiner
- to gibber, jabber, garble, muddle one's words
- 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, page 169:
- Il finit par s’arracher à cette contemplation, poussa la porte, pénétra dans une vaste bibliothèque, pleine de monde ; des étrangères assises dépliaient des cartes et baragouinaient, en des langues inconnues, des remarques.
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- to speak (a language) badly
Conjugation
Conjugation of baragouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | baragouinant /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | baragouiné /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | baragouiner | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | baragouinant /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
baragouines /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
baragouinons /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/ |
baragouinez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ |
baragouinent /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
imperfect | baragouinais /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ |
baragouinais /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ |
baragouinait /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ |
baragouinions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/ |
baragouiniez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/ |
baragouinaient /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | baragouinai /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ |
baragouinas /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/ |
baragouina /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/ |
baragouinâmes /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nam/ |
baragouinâtes /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nat/ |
baragouinèrent /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛʁ/ | |
future | baragouinerai /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/ |
baragouineras /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/ |
baragouinera /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/ |
baragouinerons /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/ |
baragouinerez /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/ |
baragouineront /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | baragouinerais /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/ |
baragouinerais /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/ |
baragouinerait /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/ |
baragouinerions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
baragouineriez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁje/ |
baragouineraient /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.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 | baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
baragouines /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
baragouinions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/ |
baragouiniez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/ |
baragouinent /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
imperfect2 | baragouinasse /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/ |
baragouinasses /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/ |
baragouinât /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/ |
baragouinassions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
baragouinassiez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sje/ |
baragouinassent /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ |
— | baragouinons /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/ |
baragouinez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
Further reading
- “baragouiner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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