narguer
French
Etymology
Probably from Vulgar Latin *naricare, from Latin nāris (“nose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /naʁ.ɡe/
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Verb
narguer
- (transitive) to taunt
- 1861, Charles Baudelaire, “Allégorie”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], 2nd edition, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
- Elle rit à la Mort et nargue la Débauche, / Ces monstres dont la main, qui toujours gratte et fauche,
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- 1865, Jules Verne, chapter 28, in De la Terre à la Lune [From the Earth to the Moon], J. Hetzel et Compagnie, published 1868:
- Le 8, rien. Le 9, le soleil reparut un instant comme pour narguer les Américains. Il fut couvert de huées, et, blessé sans doute d’un pareil accueil, il se montra fort avare de ses rayons.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of narguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | narguer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | narguant /naʁ.ɡɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | nargué /naʁ.ɡe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | nargue /naʁɡ/ |
nargues /naʁɡ/ |
nargue /naʁɡ/ |
narguons /naʁ.ɡɔ̃/ |
narguez /naʁ.ɡe/ |
narguent /naʁɡ/ |
| imperfect | narguais /naʁ.ɡɛ/ |
narguais /naʁ.ɡɛ/ |
narguait /naʁ.ɡɛ/ |
narguions /naʁ.ɡjɔ̃/ |
narguiez /naʁ.ɡje/ |
narguaient /naʁ.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | narguai /naʁ.ɡe/ |
narguas /naʁ.ɡa/ |
nargua /naʁ.ɡa/ |
narguâmes /naʁ.ɡam/ |
narguâtes /naʁ.ɡat/ |
narguèrent /naʁ.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | narguerai /naʁ.ɡə.ʁe/ |
nargueras /naʁ.ɡə.ʁa/ |
narguera /naʁ.ɡə.ʁa/ |
narguerons /naʁ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/ |
narguerez /naʁ.ɡə.ʁe/ |
nargueront /naʁ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | narguerais /naʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ |
narguerais /naʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ |
narguerait /naʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ |
narguerions /naʁ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
nargueriez /naʁ.ɡə.ʁje/ |
nargueraient /naʁ.ɡə.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 | nargue /naʁɡ/ |
nargues /naʁɡ/ |
nargue /naʁɡ/ |
narguions /naʁ.ɡjɔ̃/ |
narguiez /naʁ.ɡje/ |
narguent /naʁɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | narguasse /naʁ.ɡas/ |
narguasses /naʁ.ɡas/ |
narguât /naʁ.ɡa/ |
narguassions /naʁ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
narguassiez /naʁ.ɡa.sje/ |
narguassent /naʁ.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | nargue /naʁɡ/ |
— | narguons /naʁ.ɡɔ̃/ |
narguez /naʁ.ɡe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “narguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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