gober

See also: Gober

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“muzzle, snout, beak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (“eat, masticate (of animals)”).[1] Compare Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, bill”) and English gob.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡɔ.be/
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Verb

gober[2]

  1. to swallow whole
  2. (figuratively) to believe easily, without evidence; to buy
  3. (France, slang) to ingest drugs, especially ecstasy or LSD

Conjugation
Conjugation of gober (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple gober
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple gobant
/ɡɔ.bɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle gobé
/ɡɔ.be/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present gobe
/ɡɔb/		 gobes
/ɡɔb/		 gobe
/ɡɔb/		 gobons
/ɡɔ.bɔ̃/		 gobez
/ɡɔ.be/		 gobent
/ɡɔb/
imperfect gobais
/ɡɔ.bɛ/		 gobais
/ɡɔ.bɛ/		 gobait
/ɡɔ.bɛ/		 gobions
/ɡɔ.bjɔ̃/		 gobiez
/ɡɔ.bje/		 gobaient
/ɡɔ.bɛ/
past historic2 gobai
/ɡɔ.be/		 gobas
/ɡɔ.ba/		 goba
/ɡɔ.ba/		 gobâmes
/ɡɔ.bam/		 gobâtes
/ɡɔ.bat/		 gobèrent
/ɡɔ.bɛʁ/
future goberai
/ɡɔ.bʁe/		 goberas
/ɡɔ.bʁa/		 gobera
/ɡɔ.bʁa/		 goberons
/ɡɔ.bʁɔ̃/		 goberez
/ɡɔ.bʁe/		 goberont
/ɡɔ.bʁɔ̃/
conditional goberais
/ɡɔ.bʁɛ/		 goberais
/ɡɔ.bʁɛ/		 goberait
/ɡɔ.bʁɛ/		 goberions
/ɡɔ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/		 goberiez
/ɡɔ.bə.ʁje/		 goberaient
/ɡɔ.bʁɛ/
(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 gobe
/ɡɔb/		 gobes
/ɡɔb/		 gobe
/ɡɔb/		 gobions
/ɡɔ.bjɔ̃/		 gobiez
/ɡɔ.bje/		 gobent
/ɡɔb/
imperfect2 gobasse
/ɡɔ.bas/		 gobasses
/ɡɔ.bas/		 gobât
/ɡɔ.ba/		 gobassions
/ɡɔ.ba.sjɔ̃/		 gobassiez
/ɡɔ.ba.sje/		 gobassent
/ɡɔ.bas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — gobe
/ɡɔb/		 — gobons
/ɡɔ.bɔ̃/		 gobez
/ɡɔ.be/		 —
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

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gobbo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 164
  2. “gober”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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