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bobarder

French, verb/bɔ.baʁ.de/

bobarder is a French verb meaning “to fib (to lie inconsequentially)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Raconter des bobards”.

What does bobarder mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    colloquialto fib (to lie inconsequentially)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Raconter des bobards.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of bobarder

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • bobardant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • bobardé participle past
  • bobarde first-person indicative present
  • bobardes indicative present second-person
  • bobardons first-person indicative plural
  • bobardez indicative plural present
  • bobardent indicative plural present
  • bobardais first-person imperfect indicative
  • bobardait imperfect indicative singular
  • bobardions first-person imperfect indicative
  • bobardiez imperfect indicative plural
  • bobardaient imperfect indicative plural
  • bobardai first-person historic indicative
  • bobardas historic indicative past
  • bobarda historic indicative past
  • bobardâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce bobarder?

  • /bɔ.baʁ.de/
  • \bɔ.baʁ.de\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to bobarder

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.