embabouiner

French

Etymology

From Middle French *embaboïner (attested as embaboïnés). By surface analysis, em- +‎ babouin +‎ -er. More at baboon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne/

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Verb

embabouiner

1. to flatter, butter up

Conjugation

Conjugation of embabouiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	embabouiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	embabouinant /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		embabouiné /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	embabouine /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	embabouines /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	embabouine /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	embabouinons /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɔ̃/	embabouinez /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne/	embabouinent /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/
	imperfect	embabouinais /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɛ/	embabouinais /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɛ/	embabouinait /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɛ/	embabouinions /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.njɔ̃/	embabouiniez /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nje/	embabouinaient /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɛ/
	past historic2	embabouinai /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne/	embabouinas /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.na/	embabouina /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.na/	embabouinâmes /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nam/	embabouinâtes /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nat/	embabouinèrent /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɛʁ/
	future	embabouinerai /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁe/	embabouineras /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁa/	embabouinera /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁa/	embabouinerons /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁɔ̃/	embabouinerez /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁe/	embabouineront /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	embabouinerais /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁɛ/	embabouinerais /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁɛ/	embabouinerait /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.ʁɛ/	embabouinerions /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	embabouineriez /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nə.ʁje/	embabouineraient /ɑ̃.ba.bwin.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	embabouine /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	embabouines /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	embabouine /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	embabouinions /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.njɔ̃/	embabouiniez /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nje/	embabouinent /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/
	imperfect2	embabouinasse /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nas/	embabouinasses /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nas/	embabouinât /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.na/	embabouinassions /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.na.sjɔ̃/	embabouinassiez /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.na.sje/	embabouinassent /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	embabouine /ɑ̃.ba.bwin/	—	embabouinons /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.nɔ̃/	embabouinez /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.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).

Further reading

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