bâillonner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.jɔ.ne/ ~ /bɑ.jɔ.ne/
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- Homophones: bâillonnai, bâillonné, bâillonnée, bâillonnées, bâillonnés, bâillonnez
Verb
bâillonner
- (a person) to gag
- (a dog) to muzzle
- (figuratively) to silence
- 1962, Serge Gainsbourg, “Black Trombone”:
- Le trombone / C'est joli / Tourbillonne / Gramophone / Et bâillonne / Mon ennui
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1995, “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend ?”, in Paris sous les bombes, performed by Suprême NTM:
- Je n'ai fait que vivre bâillonné, en effet / Comme le veut la société, c'est un fait
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of bâillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bâillonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bâillonnant /ba.jɔ.nɑ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bâillonné /ba.jɔ.ne/ or /bɑ.jɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bâillonne /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
bâillonnes /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
bâillonne /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
bâillonnons /ba.jɔ.nɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɔ̃/ |
bâillonnez /ba.jɔ.ne/ or /bɑ.jɔ.ne/ |
bâillonnent /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
| imperfect | bâillonnais /ba.jɔ.nɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɛ/ |
bâillonnais /ba.jɔ.nɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɛ/ |
bâillonnait /ba.jɔ.nɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɛ/ |
bâillonnions /ba.jɔ.njɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.njɔ̃/ |
bâillonniez /ba.jɔ.nje/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nje/ |
bâillonnaient /ba.jɔ.nɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bâillonnai /ba.jɔ.ne/ or /bɑ.jɔ.ne/ |
bâillonnas /ba.jɔ.na/ or /bɑ.jɔ.na/ |
bâillonna /ba.jɔ.na/ or /bɑ.jɔ.na/ |
bâillonnâmes /ba.jɔ.nam/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nam/ |
bâillonnâtes /ba.jɔ.nat/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nat/ |
bâillonnèrent /ba.jɔ.nɛʁ/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | bâillonnerai /ba.jɔn.ʁe/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁe/ |
bâillonneras /ba.jɔn.ʁa/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁa/ |
bâillonnera /ba.jɔn.ʁa/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁa/ |
bâillonnerons /ba.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
bâillonnerez /ba.jɔn.ʁe/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁe/ |
bâillonneront /ba.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bâillonnerais /ba.jɔn.ʁɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁɛ/ |
bâillonnerais /ba.jɔn.ʁɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁɛ/ |
bâillonnerait /ba.jɔn.ʁɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔn.ʁɛ/ |
bâillonnerions /ba.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bâillonneriez /ba.jɔ.nə.ʁje/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
bâillonneraient /ba.jɔn.ʁɛ/ or /bɑ.jɔn.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 | bâillonne /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
bâillonnes /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
bâillonne /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
bâillonnions /ba.jɔ.njɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.njɔ̃/ |
bâillonniez /ba.jɔ.nje/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nje/ |
bâillonnent /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | bâillonnasse /ba.jɔ.nas/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nas/ |
bâillonnasses /ba.jɔ.nas/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nas/ |
bâillonnât /ba.jɔ.na/ or /bɑ.jɔ.na/ |
bâillonnassions /ba.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
bâillonnassiez /ba.jɔ.na.sje/ or /bɑ.jɔ.na.sje/ |
bâillonnassent /ba.jɔ.nas/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bâillonne /ba.jɔn/ or /bɑ.jɔn/ |
— | bâillonnons /ba.jɔ.nɔ̃/ or /bɑ.jɔ.nɔ̃/ |
bâillonnez /ba.jɔ.ne/ or /bɑ.jɔ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “bâillonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012