baragouiner

French

Etymology

From baragouin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

baragouiner

  1. to gibber, jabber, garble, muddle one's words
    • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter XI, in À rebours [Against the Grain]:
      Il finit par s’arracher à cette contemplation, poussa la porte, pénétra dans une vaste bibliothèque, pleine de monde ; des étrangères assises dépliaient des cartes et baragouinaient, en des langues inconnues, des remarques.
      He ended up tearing himself away from this contemplation, pushed the door open, and entered a large library full of people; there sat foreign women, dealing cards and jabbering remarks in unknown languages.
  2. to speak (a language) badly

Conjugation
Conjugation of baragouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple baragouiner
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple baragouinant
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle baragouiné
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 baragouines
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 baragouinons
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/		 baragouinez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/		 baragouinent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/
imperfect baragouinais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/		 baragouinais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/		 baragouinait
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/		 baragouinions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/		 baragouiniez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/		 baragouinaient
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/
past historic2 baragouinai
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/		 baragouinas
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/		 baragouina
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/		 baragouinâmes
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nam/		 baragouinâtes
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nat/		 baragouinèrent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛʁ/
future baragouinerai
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/		 baragouineras
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/		 baragouinera
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/		 baragouinerons
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/		 baragouinerez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/		 baragouineront
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/
conditional baragouinerais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/		 baragouinerais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/		 baragouinerait
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/		 baragouinerions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/		 baragouineriez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁje/		 baragouineraient
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.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 baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 baragouines
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 baragouinions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/		 baragouiniez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/		 baragouinent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/
imperfect2 baragouinasse
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/		 baragouinasses
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/		 baragouinât
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/		 baragouinassions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sjɔ̃/		 baragouinassiez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sje/		 baragouinassent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/		 — baragouinons
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/		 baragouinez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/		 —
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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.