vagabonder

French

Etymology

From vagabond +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de/

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Verb

vagabonder

1. to walk about, wander
2. to roam, wander, walk the earth

Conjugation

Conjugation of vagabonder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vagabonder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vagabondant /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vagabondé /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vagabonde /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	vagabondes /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	vagabonde /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	vagabondons /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɔ̃/	vagabondez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de/	vagabondent /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/
	imperfect	vagabondais /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɛ/	vagabondais /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɛ/	vagabondait /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɛ/	vagabondions /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.djɔ̃/	vagabondiez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dje/	vagabondaient /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	vagabondai /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de/	vagabondas /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.da/	vagabonda /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.da/	vagabondâmes /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dam/	vagabondâtes /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dat/	vagabondèrent /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	vagabonderai /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁe/	vagabonderas /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁa/	vagabondera /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁa/	vagabonderons /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	vagabonderez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁe/	vagabonderont /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vagabonderais /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁɛ/	vagabonderais /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁɛ/	vagabonderait /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dʁɛ/	vagabonderions /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	vagabonderiez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.də.ʁje/	vagabonderaient /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.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	vagabonde /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	vagabondes /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	vagabonde /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	vagabondions /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.djɔ̃/	vagabondiez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dje/	vagabondent /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	vagabondasse /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.das/	vagabondasses /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.das/	vagabondât /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.da/	vagabondassions /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	vagabondassiez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.da.sje/	vagabondassent /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vagabonde /va.ɡa.bɔ̃d/	—	vagabondons /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.dɔ̃/	vagabondez /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• vagabondage
• vagabondance
• vagabonderie

Further reading

• “vagabonder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.