bavarder

French

Etymology

From bavard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.vaʁ.de/

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Verb

bavarder

1. (intransitive) to chat; to prattle
   • 1973 May 14, Jean-Louis Bory, “Romance d'un jeune homme pauvre”, in Le Nouvel Observateur‎^[1], →ISSN, page 79:

     Intarissable, et dès le début, ce jeune homme bavarde, et de la pire façon.

     Inexhaustibly, right from the start, this young man chatters, and in the worst way.

2. (transitive, obsolete) to have a lengthy talk about something

Conjugation

Conjugation of bavarder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bavarder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bavardant /ba.vaʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bavardé /ba.vaʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bavarde /ba.vaʁd/	bavardes /ba.vaʁd/	bavarde /ba.vaʁd/	bavardons /ba.vaʁ.dɔ̃/	bavardez /ba.vaʁ.de/	bavardent /ba.vaʁd/
	imperfect	bavardais /ba.vaʁ.dɛ/	bavardais /ba.vaʁ.dɛ/	bavardait /ba.vaʁ.dɛ/	bavardions /ba.vaʁ.djɔ̃/	bavardiez /ba.vaʁ.dje/	bavardaient /ba.vaʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	bavardai /ba.vaʁ.de/	bavardas /ba.vaʁ.da/	bavarda /ba.vaʁ.da/	bavardâmes /ba.vaʁ.dam/	bavardâtes /ba.vaʁ.dat/	bavardèrent /ba.vaʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	bavarderai /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁe/	bavarderas /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁa/	bavardera /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁa/	bavarderons /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	bavarderez /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁe/	bavarderont /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bavarderais /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁɛ/	bavarderais /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁɛ/	bavarderait /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁɛ/	bavarderions /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	bavarderiez /ba.vaʁ.də.ʁje/	bavarderaient /ba.vaʁ.də.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	bavarde /ba.vaʁd/	bavardes /ba.vaʁd/	bavarde /ba.vaʁd/	bavardions /ba.vaʁ.djɔ̃/	bavardiez /ba.vaʁ.dje/	bavardent /ba.vaʁd/
	imperfect2	bavardasse /ba.vaʁ.das/	bavardasses /ba.vaʁ.das/	bavardât /ba.vaʁ.da/	bavardassions /ba.vaʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	bavardassiez /ba.vaʁ.da.sje/	bavardassent /ba.vaʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bavarde /ba.vaʁd/	—	bavardons /ba.vaʁ.dɔ̃/	bavardez /ba.vaʁ.de/	—
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).

Synonyms

• babiller

Related terms

• bavard
• bavardin
• bavardeur/bavardeuse

Further reading

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