barbeler

French

Etymology

From Old French barbel +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

barbeler

1. to surround with barbed wire

   …il [le Français] barbèle au besoin son jardin, et sa première débauche d'imagination est pour la clôture. (Colette, Gigi, 1944)

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of barbeler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	barbeler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	barbelant /baʁ.bə.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		barbelé /baʁ.bə.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/	barbelles or barbèles /baʁ.bɛl/	barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/	barbelons /baʁ.bə.lɔ̃/	barbelez /baʁ.bə.le/	barbellent or barbèlent /baʁ.bɛl/
	imperfect	barbelais /baʁ.bə.lɛ/	barbelais /baʁ.bə.lɛ/	barbelait /baʁ.bə.lɛ/	barbelions /baʁ.bə.ljɔ̃/	barbeliez /baʁ.bə.lje/	barbelaient /baʁ.bə.lɛ/
	past historic2	barbelai /baʁ.bə.le/	barbelas /baʁ.bə.la/	barbela /baʁ.bə.la/	barbelâmes /baʁ.bə.lam/	barbelâtes /baʁ.bə.lat/	barbelèrent /baʁ.bə.lɛʁ/
	future	barbellerai or barbèlerai /baʁ.bɛl.ʁe/	barbelleras or barbèleras /baʁ.bɛl.ʁa/	barbellera or barbèlera /baʁ.bɛl.ʁa/	barbellerons or barbèlerons /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/	barbellerez or barbèlerez /baʁ.bɛl.ʁe/	barbelleront or barbèleront /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	barbellerais or barbèlerais /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɛ/	barbellerais or barbèlerais /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɛ/	barbellerait or barbèlerait /baʁ.bɛl.ʁɛ/	barbellerions or barbèlerions /baʁ.bɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /baʁ.be.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	barbelleriez or barbèleriez /baʁ.bɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /baʁ.be.lə.ʁje/	barbelleraient or barbèleraient /baʁ.bɛl.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	barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/	barbelles or barbèles /baʁ.bɛl/	barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/	barbelions /baʁ.bə.ljɔ̃/	barbeliez /baʁ.bə.lje/	barbellent or barbèlent /baʁ.bɛl/
	imperfect2	barbelasse /baʁ.bə.las/	barbelasses /baʁ.bə.las/	barbelât /baʁ.bə.la/	barbelassions /baʁ.bə.la.sjɔ̃/	barbelassiez /baʁ.bə.la.sje/	barbelassent /baʁ.bə.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	barbelle or barbèle /baʁ.bɛl/	—	barbelons /baʁ.bə.lɔ̃/	barbelez /baʁ.bə.le/	—
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).

Derived terms

• barbelé

References

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

Further reading

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