jaboter
French, verb/ʒa.bɔ.te/
jaboter is a French verb meaning “to jabber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser des cris en secouant leur jabot, en parlant de certaines espèces d'oiseaux”.
What does jaboter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jabber
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser des cris en secouant leur jabot, en parlant de certaines espèces d'oiseaux. 2. Bavarder, parler, discuter, en parlant de plusieurs personnes qui conversent entre elles.
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 jaboter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jabotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jaboté participle past
- jabote first-person indicative present
- jabotes indicative present second-person
- jabotons first-person indicative plural
- jabotez indicative plural present
- jabotent indicative plural present
- jabotais first-person imperfect indicative
- jabotait imperfect indicative singular
- jabotions first-person imperfect indicative
- jabotiez imperfect indicative plural
- jabotaient imperfect indicative plural
- jabotai first-person historic indicative
- jabotas historic indicative past
- jabota historic indicative past
- jabotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jaboter?
- /ʒa.bɔ.te/
- \ʒa.bɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.