béer

See also: beer, Beer, bëër, and be-er

French

Etymology

Variant form of bayer (“to gape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.e/

Verb

béer

1. to gape, yawn
2. to be wide open

Conjugation

Conjugation of béer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	béer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	béant /be.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		béé /be.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bée /be/	bées /be/	bée /be/	béons /be.ɔ̃/	béez /be.e/	béent /be/
	imperfect	béais /be.ɛ/	béais /be.ɛ/	béait /be.ɛ/	béions /bej.jɔ̃/ or /bɛj.jɔ̃/	béiez /bej.je/ or /bɛj.je/	béaient /be.ɛ/
	past historic2	béai /be.e/	béas /be.a/	béa /be.a/	béâmes /be.am/	béâtes /be.at/	béèrent /be.ɛʁ/
	future	béerai /be.ʁe/	béeras /be.ʁa/	béera /be.ʁa/	béerons /be.ʁɔ̃/	béerez /be.ʁe/	béeront /be.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	béerais /be.ʁɛ/	béerais /be.ʁɛ/	béerait /be.ʁɛ/	béerions /be.ʁjɔ̃/	béeriez /be.ʁje/	béeraient /be.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	bée /be/	bées /be/	bée /be/	béions /bej.jɔ̃/ or /bɛj.jɔ̃/	béiez /bej.je/ or /bɛj.je/	béent /be/
	imperfect2	béasse /be.as/	béasses /be.as/	béât /be.a/	béassions /be.a.sjɔ̃/	béassiez /be.a.sje/	béassent /be.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bée /be/	—	béons /be.ɔ̃/	béez /be.e/	—
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

• béance
• béant
• bouche bée

Further reading

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