barricader

English

Etymology

barricade +‎ -er

Noun

barricader (plural barricaders)

1. A person who mans a barricade.
   • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 507:

     Soldiers fired regularly now on the barricaders, and the barricaders struck back in turn.

French

Etymology

From barricade +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁi.ka.de/

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Verb

barricader

1. (transitive) to barricade

Conjugation

Conjugation of barricader (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	barricader
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	barricadant /ba.ʁi.ka.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		barricadé /ba.ʁi.ka.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	barricade /ba.ʁi.kad/	barricades /ba.ʁi.kad/	barricade /ba.ʁi.kad/	barricadons /ba.ʁi.ka.dɔ̃/	barricadez /ba.ʁi.ka.de/	barricadent /ba.ʁi.kad/
	imperfect	barricadais /ba.ʁi.ka.dɛ/	barricadais /ba.ʁi.ka.dɛ/	barricadait /ba.ʁi.ka.dɛ/	barricadions /ba.ʁi.ka.djɔ̃/	barricadiez /ba.ʁi.ka.dje/	barricadaient /ba.ʁi.ka.dɛ/
	past historic2	barricadai /ba.ʁi.ka.de/	barricadas /ba.ʁi.ka.da/	barricada /ba.ʁi.ka.da/	barricadâmes /ba.ʁi.ka.dam/	barricadâtes /ba.ʁi.ka.dat/	barricadèrent /ba.ʁi.ka.dɛʁ/
	future	barricaderai /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁe/	barricaderas /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁa/	barricadera /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁa/	barricaderons /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁɔ̃/	barricaderez /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁe/	barricaderont /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	barricaderais /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁɛ/	barricaderais /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁɛ/	barricaderait /ba.ʁi.ka.dʁɛ/	barricaderions /ba.ʁi.ka.də.ʁjɔ̃/	barricaderiez /ba.ʁi.ka.də.ʁje/	barricaderaient /ba.ʁi.ka.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	barricade /ba.ʁi.kad/	barricades /ba.ʁi.kad/	barricade /ba.ʁi.kad/	barricadions /ba.ʁi.ka.djɔ̃/	barricadiez /ba.ʁi.ka.dje/	barricadent /ba.ʁi.kad/
	imperfect2	barricadasse /ba.ʁi.ka.das/	barricadasses /ba.ʁi.ka.das/	barricadât /ba.ʁi.ka.da/	barricadassions /ba.ʁi.ka.da.sjɔ̃/	barricadassiez /ba.ʁi.ka.da.sje/	barricadassent /ba.ʁi.ka.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	barricade /ba.ʁi.kad/	—	barricadons /ba.ʁi.ka.dɔ̃/	barricadez /ba.ʁi.ka.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

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