Inherited from Middle French baudir, from Old French baudir, baldir, from Frankish *baldijan, from Proto-Germanic *balþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“bold”). Cognate with Old English bieldan (“to make bold; embolden”).
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baudir
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-.
| infinitive | simple | baudir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | baudissant /bo.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | baudi /bo.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | baudis /bo.di/ |
baudis /bo.di/ |
baudit /bo.di/ |
baudissons /bo.di.sɔ̃/ |
baudissez /bo.di.se/ |
baudissent /bo.dis/ |
| imperfect | baudissais /bo.di.sɛ/ |
baudissais /bo.di.sɛ/ |
baudissait /bo.di.sɛ/ |
baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/ |
baudissiez /bo.di.sje/ |
baudissaient /bo.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | baudis /bo.di/ |
baudis /bo.di/ |
baudit /bo.di/ |
baudîmes /bo.dim/ |
baudîtes /bo.dit/ |
baudirent /bo.diʁ/ | |
| future | baudirai /bo.di.ʁe/ |
baudiras /bo.di.ʁa/ |
baudira /bo.di.ʁa/ |
baudirons /bo.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
baudirez /bo.di.ʁe/ |
baudiront /bo.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | baudirais /bo.di.ʁɛ/ |
baudirais /bo.di.ʁɛ/ |
baudirait /bo.di.ʁɛ/ |
baudirions /bo.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
baudiriez /bo.di.ʁje/ |
baudiraient /bo.di.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 | baudisse /bo.dis/ |
baudisses /bo.dis/ |
baudisse /bo.dis/ |
baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/ |
baudissiez /bo.di.sje/ |
baudissent /bo.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | baudisse /bo.dis/ |
baudisses /bo.dis/ |
baudît /bo.di/ |
baudissions /bo.di.sjɔ̃/ |
baudissiez /bo.di.sje/ |
baudissent /bo.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | baudis /bo.di/ |
— | baudissons /bo.di.sɔ̃/ |
baudissez /bo.di.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||