German

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Etymology

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Imitative (lautmalend) of a child's first attempts to speak, ba-ba.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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babbeln (weak, third-person singular present babbelt, past tense babbelte, past participle gebabbelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to blubber; blabber (talk incoherently)
  2. to babble (to talk a lot)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • babbeln” in Duden online
  • babbeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache