applaudir

French

Etymology

From Middle French applaudir (14th c.), borrowed from Latin applaudere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.plo.diʁ/

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Verb

applaudir

1. to applaud (express approval by clapping)

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

infinitive	simple	applaudir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	applaudissant /a.plo.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		applaudi /a.plo.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	applaudis /a.plo.di/	applaudis /a.plo.di/	applaudit /a.plo.di/	applaudissons /a.plo.di.sɔ̃/	applaudissez /a.plo.di.se/	applaudissent /a.plo.dis/
	imperfect	applaudissais /a.plo.di.sɛ/	applaudissais /a.plo.di.sɛ/	applaudissait /a.plo.di.sɛ/	applaudissions /a.plo.di.sjɔ̃/	applaudissiez /a.plo.di.sje/	applaudissaient /a.plo.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	applaudis /a.plo.di/	applaudis /a.plo.di/	applaudit /a.plo.di/	applaudîmes /a.plo.dim/	applaudîtes /a.plo.dit/	applaudirent /a.plo.diʁ/
	future	applaudirai /a.plo.di.ʁe/	applaudiras /a.plo.di.ʁa/	applaudira /a.plo.di.ʁa/	applaudirons /a.plo.di.ʁɔ̃/	applaudirez /a.plo.di.ʁe/	applaudiront /a.plo.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	applaudirais /a.plo.di.ʁɛ/	applaudirais /a.plo.di.ʁɛ/	applaudirait /a.plo.di.ʁɛ/	applaudirions /a.plo.di.ʁjɔ̃/	applaudiriez /a.plo.di.ʁje/	applaudiraient /a.plo.di.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	applaudisse /a.plo.dis/	applaudisses /a.plo.dis/	applaudisse /a.plo.dis/	applaudissions /a.plo.di.sjɔ̃/	applaudissiez /a.plo.di.sje/	applaudissent /a.plo.dis/
	imperfect2	applaudisse /a.plo.dis/	applaudisses /a.plo.dis/	applaudît /a.plo.di/	applaudissions /a.plo.di.sjɔ̃/	applaudissiez /a.plo.di.sje/	applaudissent /a.plo.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	applaudis /a.plo.di/	—	applaudissons /a.plo.di.sɔ̃/	applaudissez /a.plo.di.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).

Conjugation of applaudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Further reading

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