baragouiner
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
baragouiner
- to gibber, jabber, garble, muddle one's words
- 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter XI, in À rebours [Against the Grain]:
- 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.
- He ended up tearing himself away from this contemplation, pushed the door open, and entered a large library full of people; there sat foreign women, dealing cards and jabbering remarks in unknown languages.
- to speak (a language) badly
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of baragouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | baragouiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | baragouinant /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | baragouiné /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “baragouiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.