badauder

French

Etymology

From badaud +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

badauder

1. to gape, gawk

Conjugation

Conjugation of badauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	badauder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	badaudant /ba.do.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		badaudé /ba.do.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	badaude /ba.dod/	badaudes /ba.dod/	badaude /ba.dod/	badaudons /ba.do.dɔ̃/	badaudez /ba.do.de/	badaudent /ba.dod/
	imperfect	badaudais /ba.do.dɛ/	badaudais /ba.do.dɛ/	badaudait /ba.do.dɛ/	badaudions /ba.do.djɔ̃/	badaudiez /ba.do.dje/	badaudaient /ba.do.dɛ/
	past historic2	badaudai /ba.do.de/	badaudas /ba.do.da/	badauda /ba.do.da/	badaudâmes /ba.do.dam/	badaudâtes /ba.do.dat/	badaudèrent /ba.do.dɛʁ/
	future	badauderai /ba.do.dʁe/	badauderas /ba.do.dʁa/	badaudera /ba.do.dʁa/	badauderons /ba.do.dʁɔ̃/	badauderez /ba.do.dʁe/	badauderont /ba.do.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	badauderais /ba.do.dʁɛ/	badauderais /ba.do.dʁɛ/	badauderait /ba.do.dʁɛ/	badauderions /ba.do.də.ʁjɔ̃/	badauderiez /ba.do.də.ʁje/	badauderaient /ba.do.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	badaude /ba.dod/	badaudes /ba.dod/	badaude /ba.dod/	badaudions /ba.do.djɔ̃/	badaudiez /ba.do.dje/	badaudent /ba.dod/
	imperfect2	badaudasse /ba.do.das/	badaudasses /ba.do.das/	badaudât /ba.do.da/	badaudassions /ba.do.da.sjɔ̃/	badaudassiez /ba.do.da.sje/	badaudassent /ba.do.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	badaude /ba.dod/	—	badaudons /ba.do.dɔ̃/	badaudez /ba.do.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).

Further reading

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