baudir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French baudir, from Old French baudir, baldir, from Frankish *baldijan, from Proto-Germanic *balþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“bold”). Cognate with Old English bieldan (“to make bold; embolden”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

baudir

1. (transitive) to embolden

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of baudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	baudir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	baudissant /bo.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		baudi /bo.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	baudis /bo.di/	baudis /bo.di/	baudit /bo.di/	baudissons /bo.di.sɔ̃/	baudissez /bo.di.se/	baudissent /bo.dis/
	imperfect	baudissais /bo.di.sɛ/	baudissais /bo.di.sɛ/	baudissait /bo.di.sɛ/	baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/	baudissiez /bo.di.sje/	baudissaient /bo.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	baudis /bo.di/	baudis /bo.di/	baudit /bo.di/	baudîmes /bo.dim/	baudîtes /bo.dit/	baudirent /bo.diʁ/
	future	baudirai /bo.di.ʁe/	baudiras /bo.di.ʁa/	baudira /bo.di.ʁa/	baudirons /bo.di.ʁɔ̃/	baudirez /bo.di.ʁe/	baudiront /bo.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	baudirais /bo.di.ʁɛ/	baudirais /bo.di.ʁɛ/	baudirait /bo.di.ʁɛ/	baudirions /bo.di.ʁjɔ̃/	baudiriez /bo.di.ʁje/	baudiraient /bo.di.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	baudisse /bo.dis/	baudisses /bo.dis/	baudisse /bo.dis/	baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/	baudissiez /bo.di.sje/	baudissent /bo.dis/
	imperfect2	baudisse /bo.dis/	baudisses /bo.dis/	baudît /bo.di/	baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/	baudissiez /bo.di.sje/	baudissent /bo.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	baudis /bo.di/	—	baudissons /bo.di.sɔ̃/	baudissez /bo.di.se/	—
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

• ébaudir

Further reading

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