baigner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French baignier, from Vulgar Latin *baneare, Late Latin balneāre, from Latin balneum, and probably later influenced by the related French bain. Compare Occitan banhar, Catalan banyar, Italian bagnare, Spanish bañar, Portuguese banhar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.ɲe/, /be.ɲe/

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Verb

baigner

1. (transitive) to bathe
2. to go for a swim

Conjugation

Conjugation of baigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	baigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	baignant /bɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /be.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		baigné /bɛ.ɲe/ or /be.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	baigne /bɛɲ/	baignes /bɛɲ/	baigne /bɛɲ/	baignons /bɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /be.ɲɔ̃/	baignez /bɛ.ɲe/ or /be.ɲe/	baignent /bɛɲ/
	imperfect	baignais /bɛ.ɲɛ/ or /be.ɲɛ/	baignais /bɛ.ɲɛ/ or /be.ɲɛ/	baignait /bɛ.ɲɛ/ or /be.ɲɛ/	baignions /bɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /be.ɲjɔ̃/	baigniez /bɛ.ɲje/ or /be.ɲje/	baignaient /bɛ.ɲɛ/ or /be.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	baignai /bɛ.ɲe/ or /be.ɲe/	baignas /bɛ.ɲa/ or /be.ɲa/	baigna /bɛ.ɲa/ or /be.ɲa/	baignâmes /bɛ.ɲam/ or /be.ɲam/	baignâtes /bɛ.ɲat/ or /be.ɲat/	baignèrent /bɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /be.ɲɛʁ/
	future	baignerai /bɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /be.ɲə.ʁe/	baigneras /bɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /be.ɲə.ʁa/	baignera /bɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /be.ɲə.ʁa/	baignerons /bɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /be.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	baignerez /bɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /be.ɲə.ʁe/	baigneront /bɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /be.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	baignerais /bɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /be.ɲə.ʁɛ/	baignerais /bɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /be.ɲə.ʁɛ/	baignerait /bɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /be.ɲə.ʁɛ/	baignerions /bɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /be.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	baigneriez /bɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /be.ɲə.ʁje/	baigneraient /bɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /be.ɲə.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	baigne /bɛɲ/	baignes /bɛɲ/	baigne /bɛɲ/	baignions /bɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /be.ɲjɔ̃/	baigniez /bɛ.ɲje/ or /be.ɲje/	baignent /bɛɲ/
	imperfect2	baignasse /bɛ.ɲas/ or /be.ɲas/	baignasses /bɛ.ɲas/ or /be.ɲas/	baignât /bɛ.ɲa/ or /be.ɲa/	baignassions /bɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /be.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	baignassiez /bɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /be.ɲa.sje/	baignassent /bɛ.ɲas/ or /be.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	baigne /bɛɲ/	—	baignons /bɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /be.ɲɔ̃/	baignez /bɛ.ɲe/ or /be.ɲe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• avoir les dents du fond qui baignent
• baignable
• baignade
• baignoire
• ça baigne

Related terms

• bain

Further reading

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