ébahir

French

Etymology

From Old French and Middle French esbahir, from Old French baer, related to bayer, béer (“to gape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ba.iʁ/

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Verb

ébahir

1. to astonish, to astound

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 ébahir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébahir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébahissant /e.ba.i.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébahi /e.ba.i/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébahis /e.ba.i/	ébahis /e.ba.i/	ébahit /e.ba.i/	ébahissons /e.ba.i.sɔ̃/	ébahissez /e.ba.i.se/	ébahissent /e.ba.is/
	imperfect	ébahissais /e.ba.i.sɛ/	ébahissais /e.ba.i.sɛ/	ébahissait /e.ba.i.sɛ/	ébahissions /e.ba.i.sjɔ̃/	ébahissiez /e.ba.i.sje/	ébahissaient /e.ba.i.sɛ/
	past historic2	ébahis /e.ba.i/	ébahis /e.ba.i/	ébahit /e.ba.i/	ébahîmes /e.ba.im/	ébahîtes /e.ba.it/	ébahirent /e.ba.iʁ/
	future	ébahirai /e.ba.i.ʁe/	ébahiras /e.ba.i.ʁa/	ébahira /e.ba.i.ʁa/	ébahirons /e.ba.i.ʁɔ̃/	ébahirez /e.ba.i.ʁe/	ébahiront /e.ba.i.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébahirais /e.ba.i.ʁɛ/	ébahirais /e.ba.i.ʁɛ/	ébahirait /e.ba.i.ʁɛ/	ébahirions /e.ba.i.ʁjɔ̃/	ébahiriez /e.ba.i.ʁje/	ébahiraient /e.ba.i.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	ébahisse /e.ba.is/	ébahisses /e.ba.is/	ébahisse /e.ba.is/	ébahissions /e.ba.i.sjɔ̃/	ébahissiez /e.ba.i.sje/	ébahissent /e.ba.is/
	imperfect2	ébahisse /e.ba.is/	ébahisses /e.ba.is/	ébahît /e.ba.i/	ébahissions /e.ba.i.sjɔ̃/	ébahissiez /e.ba.i.sje/	ébahissent /e.ba.is/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébahis /e.ba.i/	—	ébahissons /e.ba.i.sɔ̃/	ébahissez /e.ba.i.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).

Derived terms

• ébahi (adjective)

Further reading

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