ébaudir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ébaudir, from Old French esbaudir, esbaldir. By surface analysis, é- +‎ baudir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ébaudir

1. (obsolete) to amuse, entertain, lighten up

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 ébaudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébaudir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébaudissant /e.bo.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébaudi /e.bo.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébaudis /e.bo.di/	ébaudis /e.bo.di/	ébaudit /e.bo.di/	ébaudissons /e.bo.di.sɔ̃/	ébaudissez /e.bo.di.se/	ébaudissent /e.bo.dis/
	imperfect	ébaudissais /e.bo.di.sɛ/	ébaudissais /e.bo.di.sɛ/	ébaudissait /e.bo.di.sɛ/	ébaudissions /e.bo.di.sjɔ̃/	ébaudissiez /e.bo.di.sje/	ébaudissaient /e.bo.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	ébaudis /e.bo.di/	ébaudis /e.bo.di/	ébaudit /e.bo.di/	ébaudîmes /e.bo.dim/	ébaudîtes /e.bo.dit/	ébaudirent /e.bo.diʁ/
	future	ébaudirai /e.bo.di.ʁe/	ébaudiras /e.bo.di.ʁa/	ébaudira /e.bo.di.ʁa/	ébaudirons /e.bo.di.ʁɔ̃/	ébaudirez /e.bo.di.ʁe/	ébaudiront /e.bo.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébaudirais /e.bo.di.ʁɛ/	ébaudirais /e.bo.di.ʁɛ/	ébaudirait /e.bo.di.ʁɛ/	ébaudirions /e.bo.di.ʁjɔ̃/	ébaudiriez /e.bo.di.ʁje/	ébaudiraient /e.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	ébaudisse /e.bo.dis/	ébaudisses /e.bo.dis/	ébaudisse /e.bo.dis/	ébaudissions /e.bo.di.sjɔ̃/	ébaudissiez /e.bo.di.sje/	ébaudissent /e.bo.dis/
	imperfect2	ébaudisse /e.bo.dis/	ébaudisses /e.bo.dis/	ébaudît /e.bo.di/	ébaudissions /e.bo.di.sjɔ̃/	ébaudissiez /e.bo.di.sje/	ébaudissent /e.bo.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébaudis /e.bo.di/	—	ébaudissons /e.bo.di.sɔ̃/	ébaudissez /e.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ribaude