nigauder

French

Etymology

From nigaud +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.ɡo.de/

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• Homophones: nigaudai, nigaudé, nigaudée, nigaudées, nigaudés, nigaudez

Verb

nigauder

1. to play the fool

Conjugation

Conjugation of nigauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nigauder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	nigaudant /ni.ɡo.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nigaudé /ni.ɡo.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nigaude /ni.ɡod/	nigaudes /ni.ɡod/	nigaude /ni.ɡod/	nigaudons /ni.ɡo.dɔ̃/	nigaudez /ni.ɡo.de/	nigaudent /ni.ɡod/
	imperfect	nigaudais /ni.ɡo.dɛ/	nigaudais /ni.ɡo.dɛ/	nigaudait /ni.ɡo.dɛ/	nigaudions /ni.ɡo.djɔ̃/	nigaudiez /ni.ɡo.dje/	nigaudaient /ni.ɡo.dɛ/
	past historic2	nigaudai /ni.ɡo.de/	nigaudas /ni.ɡo.da/	nigauda /ni.ɡo.da/	nigaudâmes /ni.ɡo.dam/	nigaudâtes /ni.ɡo.dat/	nigaudèrent /ni.ɡo.dɛʁ/
	future	nigauderai /ni.ɡo.dʁe/	nigauderas /ni.ɡo.dʁa/	nigaudera /ni.ɡo.dʁa/	nigauderons /ni.ɡo.dʁɔ̃/	nigauderez /ni.ɡo.dʁe/	nigauderont /ni.ɡo.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nigauderais /ni.ɡo.dʁɛ/	nigauderais /ni.ɡo.dʁɛ/	nigauderait /ni.ɡo.dʁɛ/	nigauderions /ni.ɡo.də.ʁjɔ̃/	nigauderiez /ni.ɡo.də.ʁje/	nigauderaient /ni.ɡo.dʁɛ/
(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	nigaude /ni.ɡod/	nigaudes /ni.ɡod/	nigaude /ni.ɡod/	nigaudions /ni.ɡo.djɔ̃/	nigaudiez /ni.ɡo.dje/	nigaudent /ni.ɡod/
	imperfect2	nigaudasse /ni.ɡo.das/	nigaudasses /ni.ɡo.das/	nigaudât /ni.ɡo.da/	nigaudassions /ni.ɡo.da.sjɔ̃/	nigaudassiez /ni.ɡo.da.sje/	nigaudassent /ni.ɡo.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nigaude /ni.ɡod/	—	nigaudons /ni.ɡo.dɔ̃/	nigaudez /ni.ɡo.de/	—
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

• “nigauder” in Cordial.
• “nigauder” in L'Internaute.
• “nigauder” in Le Dictionnaire.
• “nigauder” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “nigauder” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “nigauder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• "nigauder" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.