charabier

French

Etymology

From charabia +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

charabier

1. (slang) to talk gobbledegook, to babble

Conjugation

Conjugation of charabier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	charabier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	charabiant /ʃa.ʁa.bjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		charabié /ʃa.ʁa.bje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	charabies /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	charabions /ʃa.ʁa.bjɔ̃/	charabiez /ʃa.ʁa.bje/	charabient /ʃa.ʁa.bi/
	imperfect	charabiais /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/	charabiais /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/	charabiait /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/	charabiions /ʃa.ʁa.bi.jɔ̃/	charabiiez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.je/	charabiaient /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛ/
	past historic2	charabiai /ʃa.ʁa.bje/	charabias /ʃa.ʁa.bja/	charabia /ʃa.ʁa.bja/	charabiâmes /ʃa.ʁa.bjam/	charabiâtes /ʃa.ʁa.bjat/	charabièrent /ʃa.ʁa.bjɛʁ/
	future	charabierai /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁe/	charabieras /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁa/	charabiera /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁa/	charabierons /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɔ̃/	charabierez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁe/	charabieront /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	charabierais /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɛ/	charabierais /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɛ/	charabierait /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁɛ/	charabierions /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁjɔ̃/	charabieriez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.ʁje/	charabieraient /ʃa.ʁa.bi.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	charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	charabies /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	charabiions /ʃa.ʁa.bi.jɔ̃/	charabiiez /ʃa.ʁa.bi.je/	charabient /ʃa.ʁa.bi/
	imperfect2	charabiasse /ʃa.ʁa.bjas/	charabiasses /ʃa.ʁa.bjas/	charabiât /ʃa.ʁa.bja/	charabiassions /ʃa.ʁa.bja.sjɔ̃/	charabiassiez /ʃa.ʁa.bja.sje/	charabiassent /ʃa.ʁa.bjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	charabie /ʃa.ʁa.bi/	—	charabions /ʃa.ʁa.bjɔ̃/	charabiez /ʃa.ʁa.bje/	—
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

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