baragouiner

French

Etymology

From baragouin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/

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Verb

baragouiner

1. to gibber, jabber, garble, muddle one's words
   • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter XI, in À rebours [Against the Grain]:

     Il finit par s’arracher à cette contemplation, poussa la porte, pénétra dans une vaste bibliothèque, pleine de monde ; des étrangères assises dépliaient des cartes et baragouinaient, en des langues inconnues, des remarques.

     He ended up tearing himself away from this contemplation, pushed the door open, and entered a large library full of people; there sat foreign women, dealing cards and jabbering remarks in unknown languages.

2. to speak (a language) badly

Conjugation

Conjugation of baragouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	baragouiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	baragouinant /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		baragouiné /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	baragouines /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	baragouinons /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/	baragouinez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/	baragouinent /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/
	imperfect	baragouinais /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/	baragouinais /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/	baragouinait /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/	baragouinions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/	baragouiniez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/	baragouinaient /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛ/
	past historic2	baragouinai /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/	baragouinas /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/	baragouina /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/	baragouinâmes /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nam/	baragouinâtes /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nat/	baragouinèrent /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɛʁ/
	future	baragouinerai /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/	baragouineras /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/	baragouinera /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁa/	baragouinerons /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/	baragouinerez /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁe/	baragouineront /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	baragouinerais /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/	baragouinerais /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/	baragouinerait /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.ʁɛ/	baragouinerions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	baragouineriez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nə.ʁje/	baragouineraient /ba.ʁa.ɡwin.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	baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	baragouines /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	baragouinions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.njɔ̃/	baragouiniez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nje/	baragouinent /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/
	imperfect2	baragouinasse /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/	baragouinasses /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/	baragouinât /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na/	baragouinassions /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sjɔ̃/	baragouinassiez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.na.sje/	baragouinassent /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	baragouine /ba.ʁa.ɡwin/	—	baragouinons /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.nɔ̃/	baragouinez /ba.ʁa.ɡwi.ne/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• baragouinage
• baragouineur
• baragouineuse

Further reading

• “baragouiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.