badiner

French

Etymology

badin +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Verb

badiner

1. to jest, joke

Conjugation

Conjugation of badiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	badiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	badinant /ba.di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		badiné /ba.di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	badine /ba.din/	badines /ba.din/	badine /ba.din/	badinons /ba.di.nɔ̃/	badinez /ba.di.ne/	badinent /ba.din/
	imperfect	badinais /ba.di.nɛ/	badinais /ba.di.nɛ/	badinait /ba.di.nɛ/	badinions /ba.di.njɔ̃/	badiniez /ba.di.nje/	badinaient /ba.di.nɛ/
	past historic2	badinai /ba.di.ne/	badinas /ba.di.na/	badina /ba.di.na/	badinâmes /ba.di.nam/	badinâtes /ba.di.nat/	badinèrent /ba.di.nɛʁ/
	future	badinerai /ba.din.ʁe/	badineras /ba.din.ʁa/	badinera /ba.din.ʁa/	badinerons /ba.din.ʁɔ̃/	badinerez /ba.din.ʁe/	badineront /ba.din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	badinerais /ba.din.ʁɛ/	badinerais /ba.din.ʁɛ/	badinerait /ba.din.ʁɛ/	badinerions /ba.di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	badineriez /ba.di.nə.ʁje/	badineraient /ba.din.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	badine /ba.din/	badines /ba.din/	badine /ba.din/	badinions /ba.di.njɔ̃/	badiniez /ba.di.nje/	badinent /ba.din/
	imperfect2	badinasse /ba.di.nas/	badinasses /ba.di.nas/	badinât /ba.di.na/	badinassions /ba.di.na.sjɔ̃/	badinassiez /ba.di.na.sje/	badinassent /ba.di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	badine /ba.din/	—	badinons /ba.di.nɔ̃/	badinez /ba.di.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

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