palabrer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
palabrer
- (intransitive) to endlessly argue
- 2023, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, L'iris blanc [Asterix and the White Iris] (Asterix), Vanves: Hachette, →ISBN, page 17:
- Mais assez palabré ! Mes amis, il est de temps de guerroyer !
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of palabrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | palabrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | palabrant /pa.la.bʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | palabré /pa.la.bʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | palabre /pa.labʁ/ |
palabres /pa.labʁ/ |
palabre /pa.labʁ/ |
palabrons /pa.la.bʁɔ̃/ |
palabrez /pa.la.bʁe/ |
palabrent /pa.labʁ/ |
| imperfect | palabrais /pa.la.bʁɛ/ |
palabrais /pa.la.bʁɛ/ |
palabrait /pa.la.bʁɛ/ |
palabrions /pa.la.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
palabriez /pa.la.bʁi.je/ |
palabraient /pa.la.bʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | palabrai /pa.la.bʁe/ |
palabras /pa.la.bʁa/ |
palabra /pa.la.bʁa/ |
palabrâmes /pa.la.bʁam/ |
palabrâtes /pa.la.bʁat/ |
palabrèrent /pa.la.bʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | palabrerai /pa.la.bʁə.ʁe/ |
palabreras /pa.la.bʁə.ʁa/ |
palabrera /pa.la.bʁə.ʁa/ |
palabrerons /pa.la.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
palabrerez /pa.la.bʁə.ʁe/ |
palabreront /pa.la.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | palabrerais /pa.la.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
palabrerais /pa.la.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
palabrerait /pa.la.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
palabrerions /pa.la.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
palabreriez /pa.la.bʁə.ʁje/ |
palabreraient /pa.la.bʁə.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 | palabre /pa.labʁ/ |
palabres /pa.labʁ/ |
palabre /pa.labʁ/ |
palabrions /pa.la.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
palabriez /pa.la.bʁi.je/ |
palabrent /pa.labʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | palabrasse /pa.la.bʁas/ |
palabrasses /pa.la.bʁas/ |
palabrât /pa.la.bʁa/ |
palabrassions /pa.la.bʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
palabrassiez /pa.la.bʁa.sje/ |
palabrassent /pa.la.bʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | palabre /pa.labʁ/ |
— | palabrons /pa.la.bʁɔ̃/ |
palabrez /pa.la.bʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “palabrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.