How to Conjugate 'Applaudir' (to Applaud, Clap)

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The French word applaudir means to applaud or to clap. Applaudir is a regular verb, meaning it's one of those words that's relatively easy to conjugate. 

How to Conjugate the French Verb Applaudir

To conjugate a regular verb, start with the stem and add the ending appropriate of the type of verb you're conjugating and the subject pronoun you're using—the person or thing doing the action. Applaudir is a regular -ir verb, so the stem is applaud- and the endings are those of regular infinitives ending in -ir.

This chart will help you figure out how conjugate applaudir.

  Present Future Imperfect
j' applaudis applaudirai applaudissais
tu applaudis applaudiras applaudissais
il applaudit applaudira applaudissait
nous applaudissons applaudirons applaudissions
vous applaudissez applaudirez applaudissiez
ils applaudissent applaudiront applaudissaient

The present participle of applaudir is applaudissant. The present participle is less common in French than its English equivalent -ing. You may use the present participle as an adjective, gerund, noun or verb.

Example

Applaudissant, nous avons commencé departer le théâtre. (Applauding, we began to leave the theater.)

Other Simple Conjugations of Applaudir

  Subjunctive Conditional Passé simple Imperfect subjunctive

j'

applaudisse

applaudirais

applaudis

applaudisse

tu

applaudisses

applaudirais

applaudis

applaudisses

il

applaudisse

applaudirait applaudit applaudît
nous applaudissions

applaudirions

applaudîmes

applaudissions
vous

applaudissiez

applaudiriez applaudîtes applaudissiez
ils applaudissent applaudiraient applaudirent applaudissent
Imperative  

tu

applaudis
nous applaudissons
vous applaudissez

How to Form the Past Tense of Applaudir

You can use the imperfect tense to talk about something in the past (j'applaudissais / I was clapping) but you're more likely to use the passé composé, which is a compound tense. Applaudir uses the auxiliary verb avoir, and the past participle is applaudi.

Example

J'ai applaudi. (I applauded.)

Nous avons applaudi. (We applauded.)

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