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jaboter
jaboter
French
Verb
jaboter
- (intransitive) to jabber
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of jaboter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | jaboter | avoir jaboté | |||||
| gerund | en jabotant | en ayant jaboté | |||||
| present participle |  jabotant /ʒa.bɔ.tɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  jaboté /ʒa.bɔ.te/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  jabote /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
 jabotes /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
 jabote /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
 jabotons /ʒa.bɔ.tɔ̃/  | 
 jabotez /ʒa.bɔ.te/  | 
 jabotent /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
| imperfect |  jabotais /ʒa.bɔ.tɛ/  | 
 jabotais /ʒa.bɔ.tɛ/  | 
 jabotait /ʒa.bɔ.tɛ/  | 
 jabotions /ʒa.bɔ.tjɔ̃/  | 
 jabotiez /ʒa.bɔ.tje/  | 
 jabotaient /ʒa.bɔ.tɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  jabotai /ʒa.bɔ.te/  | 
jabotas /ʒa.bɔ.ta/  | 
jabota /ʒa.bɔ.ta/  | 
jabotâmes /ʒa.bɔ.tam/  | 
jabotâtes /ʒa.bɔ.tat/  | 
jabotèrent /ʒa.bɔ.tɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  jaboterai /ʒa.bɔ.tʁe/  | 
 jaboteras /ʒa.bɔ.tʁa/  | 
 jabotera /ʒa.bɔ.tʁa/  | 
 jaboterons /ʒa.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/  | 
 jaboterez /ʒa.bɔ.tʁe/  | 
 jaboteront /ʒa.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  jaboterais /ʒa.bɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
 jaboterais /ʒa.bɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
 jaboterait /ʒa.bɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
 jaboterions /ʒa.bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 jaboteriez /ʒa.bɔ.tə.ʁje/  | 
 jaboteraient /ʒa.bɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
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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 |  jabote /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
 jabotes /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
 jabote /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
 jabotions /ʒa.bɔ.tjɔ̃/  | 
 jabotiez /ʒa.bɔ.tje/  | 
 jabotent /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
jabotasse /ʒa.bɔ.tas/  | 
jabotasses /ʒa.bɔ.tas/  | 
jabotât /ʒa.bɔ.ta/  | 
jabotassions /ʒa.bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/  | 
jabotassiez /ʒa.bɔ.ta.sje/  | 
jabotassent /ʒa.bɔ.tas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  jabote /ʒa.bɔt/  | 
— |  jabotons /ʒa.bɔ.tɔ̃/  | 
 jabotez /ʒa.bɔ.te/  | 
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