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bâiller
bâiller
See also: bailler
French
Verb
bâiller
- to yawn
Conjugation
Conjugation of bâiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | bâiller | avoir bâillé | |||||
| gerund | en bâillant | en ayant bâillé | |||||
| present participle | bâillant /bɑ.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | bâillé /bɑ.je/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bâille /bɑj/ |
bâilles /bɑj/ |
bâille /bɑj/ |
bâillons /bɑ.jɔ̃/ |
bâillez /bɑ.je/ |
bâillent /bɑj/ |
| imperfect | bâillais /bɑ.jɛ/ |
bâillais /bɑ.jɛ/ |
bâillait /bɑ.jɛ/ |
bâillions /bɑj.jɔ̃/ |
bâilliez /bɑj.je/ |
bâillaient /bɑ.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | bâillai /bɑ.je/ |
bâillas /bɑ.ja/ |
bâilla /bɑ.ja/ |
bâillâmes /bɑ.jam/ |
bâillâtes /bɑ.jat/ |
bâillèrent /bɑ.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | bâillerai /bɑj.ʁe/ |
bâilleras /bɑj.ʁa/ |
bâillera /bɑj.ʁa/ |
bâillerons /bɑj.ʁɔ̃/ |
bâillerez /bɑj.ʁe/ |
bâilleront /bɑj.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | bâillerais /bɑj.ʁɛ/ |
bâillerais /bɑj.ʁɛ/ |
bâillerait /bɑj.ʁɛ/ |
bâillerions /bɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bâilleriez /bɑ.jə.ʁje/ |
bâilleraient /bɑj.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bâille /bɑj/ |
bâilles /bɑj/ |
bâille /bɑj/ |
bâillions /bɑj.jɔ̃/ |
bâilliez /bɑj.je/ |
bâillent /bɑj/ |
| imperfect1 |
bâillasse /bɑ.jas/ |
bâillasses /bɑ.jas/ |
bâillât /bɑ.ja/ |
bâillassions /bɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
bâillassiez /bɑ.ja.sje/ |
bâillassent /bɑ.jas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | bâille /bɑj/ |
— | bâillons /bɑ.jɔ̃/ |
bâillez /bɑ.je/ |
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