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balbutier
balbutier
French
Verb
balbutier
Conjugation
Conjugation of balbutier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | balbutier | avoir balbutié | |||||
| gerund | en balbutiant | en ayant balbutié | |||||
| present participle | balbutiant /bal.by.tjɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | balbutié /bal.by.tje/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | balbutie /bal.by.ti/ |
balbuties /bal.by.ti/ |
balbutie /bal.by.ti/ |
balbutions /bal.by.tjɔ̃/ |
balbutiez /bal.by.tje/ |
balbutient /bal.by.ti/ |
| imperfect | balbutiais /bal.by.tjɛ/ |
balbutiais /bal.by.tjɛ/ |
balbutiait /bal.by.tjɛ/ |
balbutiions /bal.by.ti.jɔ̃/ |
balbutiiez /bal.by.ti.je/ |
balbutiaient /bal.by.tjɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | balbutiai /bal.by.tje/ |
balbutias /bal.by.tja/ |
balbutia /bal.by.tja/ |
balbutiâmes /bal.by.tjam/ |
balbutiâtes /bal.by.tjat/ |
balbutièrent /bal.by.tjɛʁ/ |
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| future | balbutierai /bal.by.ti.ʁe/ |
balbutieras /bal.by.ti.ʁa/ |
balbutiera /bal.by.ti.ʁa/ |
balbutierons /bal.by.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
balbutierez /bal.by.ti.ʁe/ |
balbutieront /bal.by.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | balbutierais /bal.by.ti.ʁɛ/ |
balbutierais /bal.by.ti.ʁɛ/ |
balbutierait /bal.by.ti.ʁɛ/ |
balbutierions /bal.by.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
balbutieriez /bal.by.ti.ʁje/ |
balbutieraient /bal.by.ti.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 | balbutie /bal.by.ti/ |
balbuties /bal.by.ti/ |
balbutie /bal.by.ti/ |
balbutiions /bal.by.ti.jɔ̃/ |
balbutiiez /bal.by.ti.je/ |
balbutient /bal.by.ti/ |
| imperfect1 |
balbutiasse /bal.by.tjas/ |
balbutiasses /bal.by.tjas/ |
balbutiât /bal.by.tja/ |
balbutiassions /bal.by.tja.sjɔ̃/ |
balbutiassiez /bal.by.tja.sje/ |
balbutiassent /bal.by.tjas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | balbutie /bal.by.ti/ |
— | balbutions /bal.by.tjɔ̃/ |
balbutiez /bal.by.tje/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||