charabier
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
charabier
- (slang) to talk gobbledegook, to babble
Conjugation edit
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 edit
- “charabier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.