baragouiner

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From baragouin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/
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Verb[edit]

baragouiner

  1. to gibber, jabber, garble, muddle one's words
    • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter XI, in À rebours [Against the Grain]:
      Il finit par s’arracher à cette contemplation, poussa la porte, pénétra dans une vaste bibliothèque, pleine de monde ; des étrangères assises dépliaient des cartes et baragouinaient, en des langues inconnues, des remarques.
      He ended up tearing himself away from this contemplation, pushed the door open, and entered a large library full of people; there sat foreign women, dealing cards and jabbering remarks in unknown languages.
  2. to speak (a language) badly

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of baragouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple baragouiner
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple baragouinant
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle baragouiné
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		baragouines
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		baragouinons
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/ 		baragouinez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ 		baragouinent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/
imperfect baragouinais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ 		baragouinais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ 		baragouinait
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/ 		baragouinions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/ 		baragouiniez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/ 		baragouinaient
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/
past historic2 baragouinai
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/ 		baragouinas
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/ 		baragouina
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/ 		baragouinâmes
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nam/ 		baragouinâtes
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nat/ 		baragouinèrent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛʁ/
future baragouinerai
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/ 		baragouineras
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/ 		baragouinera
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/ 		baragouinerons
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/ 		baragouinerez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/ 		baragouineront
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/
conditional baragouinerais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/ 		baragouinerais
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/ 		baragouinerait
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/ 		baragouinerions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		baragouineriez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁje/ 		baragouineraient
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin.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 baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		baragouines
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		baragouinions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/ 		baragouiniez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/ 		baragouinent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/
imperfect2 baragouinasse
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/ 		baragouinasses
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/ 		baragouinât
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/ 		baragouinassions
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sjɔ̃/ 		baragouinassiez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sje/ 		baragouinassent
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — baragouine
/ba.ʁa.ɡwin/ 		— baragouinons
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/ 		baragouinez
/ba.ʁa.ɡwi.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).

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