gaudir

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gaudēre, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəwˈði]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡawˈðiɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

gaudir (first-person singular present gaudeixo, first-person singular preterite gaudí, past participle gaudit)

1. (intransitive) to enjoy oneself, to benefit [with de ‘from’]

   Ella gaudeix d’una bona salut. ― She enjoys good health.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of gaudir (third conjugation, with -eix-)

infinitive			gaudir
gerund			gaudint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		gaudit		gaudida
		plural		gaudits		gaudides
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	gaudeixo	gaudeixes	gaudeix	gaudim	gaudiu	gaudeixen
	imperfect	gaudia	gaudies	gaudia	gaudíem	gaudíeu	gaudien
	future	gaudiré	gaudiràs	gaudirà	gaudirem	gaudireu	gaudiran
	preterite	gaudí	gaudires	gaudí	gaudírem	gaudíreu	gaudiren
	conditional	gaudiria	gaudiries	gaudiria	gaudiríem	gaudiríeu	gaudirien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	gaudeixi	gaudeixis	gaudeixi	gaudim	gaudiu	gaudeixin
	imperfect	gaudís	gaudissis	gaudís	gaudíssim	gaudíssiu	gaudissin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	gaudeix	gaudeixi	gaudim	gaudiu	gaudeixin
	negative (no)	—	no gaudeixis	no gaudeixi	no gaudim	no gaudiu	no gaudeixin

Derived terms

• gaudidor
• gaudiment

 

Related terms

• gaudi
• goig

Further reading

• “gaudir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gaudir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gaudir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gaudir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gaudēre. Compare the inherited doublet jouir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.diʁ/

• Audio:

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Verb

gaudir

1. (archaic) to rejoice

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 gaudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gaudir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gaudissant /ɡo.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gaudi /ɡo.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gaudis /ɡo.di/	gaudis /ɡo.di/	gaudit /ɡo.di/	gaudissons /ɡo.di.sɔ̃/	gaudissez /ɡo.di.se/	gaudissent /ɡo.dis/
	imperfect	gaudissais /ɡo.di.sɛ/	gaudissais /ɡo.di.sɛ/	gaudissait /ɡo.di.sɛ/	gaudissions /ɡo.di.sjɔ̃/	gaudissiez /ɡo.di.sje/	gaudissaient /ɡo.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	gaudis /ɡo.di/	gaudis /ɡo.di/	gaudit /ɡo.di/	gaudîmes /ɡo.dim/	gaudîtes /ɡo.dit/	gaudirent /ɡo.diʁ/
	future	gaudirai /ɡo.di.ʁe/	gaudiras /ɡo.di.ʁa/	gaudira /ɡo.di.ʁa/	gaudirons /ɡo.di.ʁɔ̃/	gaudirez /ɡo.di.ʁe/	gaudiront /ɡo.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gaudirais /ɡo.di.ʁɛ/	gaudirais /ɡo.di.ʁɛ/	gaudirait /ɡo.di.ʁɛ/	gaudirions /ɡo.di.ʁjɔ̃/	gaudiriez /ɡo.di.ʁje/	gaudiraient /ɡo.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	gaudisse /ɡo.dis/	gaudisses /ɡo.dis/	gaudisse /ɡo.dis/	gaudissions /ɡo.di.sjɔ̃/	gaudissiez /ɡo.di.sje/	gaudissent /ɡo.dis/
	imperfect2	gaudisse /ɡo.dis/	gaudisses /ɡo.dis/	gaudît /ɡo.di/	gaudissions /ɡo.di.sjɔ̃/	gaudissiez /ɡo.di.sje/	gaudissent /ɡo.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gaudis /ɡo.di/	—	gaudissons /ɡo.di.sɔ̃/	gaudissez /ɡo.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

• jouir
• joie

Further reading

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