How to Conjugate Applaudir (to Applaud, Clap)

The French word applaudir means to applaud or to clap. Applaudir is  a regular verb, meaning its one of those words thats 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 youre conjugating and the subject pronoun youre 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 commencà © departer le thà ©Ãƒ ¢tre. (Applauding, we began to leave the theater.) Other Simple Conjugations of Applaudir Subjunctive Conditional Passà © simple Imperfect subjunctive j' applaudisse applaudirais applaudis applaudisse tu applaudisses applaudirais applaudis applaudisses il applaudisse applaudirait applaudit applaudà ®t nous applaudissions applaudirions applaudà ®mes applaudissions vous applaudissiez applaudiriez applaudà ®tes 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 (japplaudissais / I was clapping) but youre more likely to use the passà © composà ©, which is a compound tense. Applaudir uses the auxiliary verb avoir, and the past participle is applaudi. Example Jai applaudi. (I applauded.) Nous avons applaudi. (We applauded.)