clabauder
French
Etymology
From clabaud + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla.bo.de/
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Verb
clabauder
- (intransitive) to bay, to bark loudly
- (intransitive, figuratively, literary) to spread gossip, to scandalmonger
Conjugation
Conjugation of clabauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | clabauder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | clabaudant /kla.bo.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | clabaudé /kla.bo.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | clabaude /kla.bod/ |
clabaudes /kla.bod/ |
clabaude /kla.bod/ |
clabaudons /kla.bo.dɔ̃/ |
clabaudez /kla.bo.de/ |
clabaudent /kla.bod/ |
| imperfect | clabaudais /kla.bo.dɛ/ |
clabaudais /kla.bo.dɛ/ |
clabaudait /kla.bo.dɛ/ |
clabaudions /kla.bo.djɔ̃/ |
clabaudiez /kla.bo.dje/ |
clabaudaient /kla.bo.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | clabaudai /kla.bo.de/ |
clabaudas /kla.bo.da/ |
clabauda /kla.bo.da/ |
clabaudâmes /kla.bo.dam/ |
clabaudâtes /kla.bo.dat/ |
clabaudèrent /kla.bo.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | clabauderai /kla.bo.dʁe/ |
clabauderas /kla.bo.dʁa/ |
clabaudera /kla.bo.dʁa/ |
clabauderons /kla.bo.dʁɔ̃/ |
clabauderez /kla.bo.dʁe/ |
clabauderont /kla.bo.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | clabauderais /kla.bo.dʁɛ/ |
clabauderais /kla.bo.dʁɛ/ |
clabauderait /kla.bo.dʁɛ/ |
clabauderions /kla.bo.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
clabauderiez /kla.bo.də.ʁje/ |
clabauderaient /kla.bo.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | clabaude /kla.bod/ |
clabaudes /kla.bod/ |
clabaude /kla.bod/ |
clabaudions /kla.bo.djɔ̃/ |
clabaudiez /kla.bo.dje/ |
clabaudent /kla.bod/ |
| imperfect2 | clabaudasse /kla.bo.das/ |
clabaudasses /kla.bo.das/ |
clabaudât /kla.bo.da/ |
clabaudassions /kla.bo.da.sjɔ̃/ |
clabaudassiez /kla.bo.da.sje/ |
clabaudassent /kla.bo.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | clabaude /kla.bod/ |
— | clabaudons /kla.bo.dɔ̃/ |
clabaudez /kla.bo.de/ |
— | |
| 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
- clabaudage
- clabauderie
Further reading
- “clabauder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012