bavasser

French

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Verb

bavasser

1. to waffle, natter

Conjugation

Conjugation of bavasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bavasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bavassant /ba.va.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bavassé /ba.va.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bavasse /ba.vas/	bavasses /ba.vas/	bavasse /ba.vas/	bavassons /ba.va.sɔ̃/	bavassez /ba.va.se/	bavassent /ba.vas/
	imperfect	bavassais /ba.va.sɛ/	bavassais /ba.va.sɛ/	bavassait /ba.va.sɛ/	bavassions /ba.va.sjɔ̃/	bavassiez /ba.va.sje/	bavassaient /ba.va.sɛ/
	past historic2	bavassai /ba.va.se/	bavassas /ba.va.sa/	bavassa /ba.va.sa/	bavassâmes /ba.va.sam/	bavassâtes /ba.va.sat/	bavassèrent /ba.va.sɛʁ/
	future	bavasserai /ba.va.sʁe/	bavasseras /ba.va.sʁa/	bavassera /ba.va.sʁa/	bavasserons /ba.va.sʁɔ̃/	bavasserez /ba.va.sʁe/	bavasseront /ba.va.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bavasserais /ba.va.sʁɛ/	bavasserais /ba.va.sʁɛ/	bavasserait /ba.va.sʁɛ/	bavasserions /ba.va.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	bavasseriez /ba.va.sə.ʁje/	bavasseraient /ba.va.sʁɛ/
(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	bavasse /ba.vas/	bavasses /ba.vas/	bavasse /ba.vas/	bavassions /ba.va.sjɔ̃/	bavassiez /ba.va.sje/	bavassent /ba.vas/
	imperfect2	bavassasse /ba.va.sas/	bavassasses /ba.va.sas/	bavassât /ba.va.sa/	bavassassions /ba.va.sa.sjɔ̃/	bavassassiez /ba.va.sa.sje/	bavassassent /ba.va.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bavasse /ba.vas/	—	bavassons /ba.va.sɔ̃/	bavassez /ba.va.se/	—
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

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