balbutier
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin balbūtīre (formed as if from a *balbutiāre, remade from the first-person singular present indicative).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bal.by.sje/
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Verb
balbutier
Conjugation
Conjugation of balbutier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | balbutier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | balbutiant /bal.by.sjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | balbutié /bal.by.sje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | balbutie /bal.by.si/ |
balbuties /bal.by.si/ |
balbutie /bal.by.si/ |
balbutions /bal.by.sjɔ̃/ |
balbutiez /bal.by.sje/ |
balbutient /bal.by.si/ |
| imperfect | balbutiais /bal.by.sjɛ/ |
balbutiais /bal.by.sjɛ/ |
balbutiait /bal.by.sjɛ/ |
balbutiions /bal.by.si.jɔ̃/ |
balbutiiez /bal.by.si.je/ |
balbutiaient /bal.by.sjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | balbutiai /bal.by.sje/ |
balbutias /bal.by.sja/ |
balbutia /bal.by.sja/ |
balbutiâmes /bal.by.sjam/ |
balbutiâtes /bal.by.sjat/ |
balbutièrent /bal.by.sjɛʁ/ | |
| future | balbutierai /bal.by.si.ʁe/ |
balbutieras /bal.by.si.ʁa/ |
balbutiera /bal.by.si.ʁa/ |
balbutierons /bal.by.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
balbutierez /bal.by.si.ʁe/ |
balbutieront /bal.by.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | balbutierais /bal.by.si.ʁɛ/ |
balbutierais /bal.by.si.ʁɛ/ |
balbutierait /bal.by.si.ʁɛ/ |
balbutierions /bal.by.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
balbutieriez /bal.by.si.ʁje/ |
balbutieraient /bal.by.si.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 | balbutie /bal.by.si/ |
balbuties /bal.by.si/ |
balbutie /bal.by.si/ |
balbutiions /bal.by.si.jɔ̃/ |
balbutiiez /bal.by.si.je/ |
balbutient /bal.by.si/ |
| imperfect2 | balbutiasse /bal.by.sjas/ |
balbutiasses /bal.by.sjas/ |
balbutiât /bal.by.sja/ |
balbutiassions /bal.by.sja.sjɔ̃/ |
balbutiassiez /bal.by.sja.sje/ |
balbutiassent /bal.by.sjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | balbutie /bal.by.si/ |
— | balbutions /bal.by.sjɔ̃/ |
balbutiez /bal.by.sje/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “balbutier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.