ébahir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French esbahir, esbaier, from Vulgar Latin *exbatāre, from Early Medieval Latin batāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ba.iʁ/
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Verb
ébahir
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.