ébaubir
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
ébaubir
- (colloquial) to astonish, flabbergast
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 ébaubir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ébaubir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ébaubissant /e.bo.bi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ébaubi /e.bo.bi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ébaubis /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubis /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubit /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubissons /e.bo.bi.sɔ̃/ |
ébaubissez /e.bo.bi.se/ |
ébaubissent /e.bo.bis/ |
| imperfect | ébaubissais /e.bo.bi.sɛ/ |
ébaubissais /e.bo.bi.sɛ/ |
ébaubissait /e.bo.bi.sɛ/ |
ébaubissions /e.bo.bi.sjɔ̃/ |
ébaubissiez /e.bo.bi.sje/ |
ébaubissaient /e.bo.bi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ébaubis /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubis /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubit /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubîmes /e.bo.bim/ |
ébaubîtes /e.bo.bit/ |
ébaubirent /e.bo.biʁ/ | |
| future | ébaubirai /e.bo.bi.ʁe/ |
ébaubiras /e.bo.bi.ʁa/ |
ébaubira /e.bo.bi.ʁa/ |
ébaubirons /e.bo.bi.ʁɔ̃/ |
ébaubirez /e.bo.bi.ʁe/ |
ébaubiront /e.bo.bi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ébaubirais /e.bo.bi.ʁɛ/ |
ébaubirais /e.bo.bi.ʁɛ/ |
ébaubirait /e.bo.bi.ʁɛ/ |
ébaubirions /e.bo.bi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ébaubiriez /e.bo.bi.ʁje/ |
ébaubiraient /e.bo.bi.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 | ébaubisse /e.bo.bis/ |
ébaubisses /e.bo.bis/ |
ébaubisse /e.bo.bis/ |
ébaubissions /e.bo.bi.sjɔ̃/ |
ébaubissiez /e.bo.bi.sje/ |
ébaubissent /e.bo.bis/ |
| imperfect2 | ébaubisse /e.bo.bis/ |
ébaubisses /e.bo.bis/ |
ébaubît /e.bo.bi/ |
ébaubissions /e.bo.bi.sjɔ̃/ |
ébaubissiez /e.bo.bi.sje/ |
ébaubissent /e.bo.bis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ébaubis /e.bo.bi/ |
— | ébaubissons /e.bo.bi.sɔ̃/ |
ébaubissez /e.bo.bi.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
- ébaubissement
Further reading
- “ébaubir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.