boucher
See also: Boucher
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.ʃe/
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Etymology 1
From Old French bouchier, from bouc (“goat”), of Germanic origin.
Noun
boucher m (plural bouchers, feminine bouchère)
- butcher
Derived terms
- feuille de boucher
- louchébem
Related terms
- bouche
- boucherie
Etymology 2
See bouche
Verb
boucher
- to cork up
- to bung
- to block up
Conjugation
Conjugation of boucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | boucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bouchant /bu.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bouché /bu.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | bouche /buʃ/ | bouches /buʃ/ | bouche /buʃ/ | bouchons /bu.ʃɔ̃/ | bouchez /bu.ʃe/ | bouchent /buʃ/ |
| imperfect | bouchais /bu.ʃɛ/ | bouchais /bu.ʃɛ/ | bouchait /bu.ʃɛ/ | bouchions /bu.ʃjɔ̃/ | bouchiez /bu.ʃje/ | bouchaient /bu.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bouchai /bu.ʃe/ | bouchas /bu.ʃa/ | boucha /bu.ʃa/ | bouchâmes /bu.ʃam/ | bouchâtes /bu.ʃat/ | bouchèrent /bu.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | boucherai /buʃ.ʁe/ | boucheras /buʃ.ʁa/ | bouchera /buʃ.ʁa/ | boucherons /buʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | boucherez /buʃ.ʁe/ | boucheront /buʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | boucherais /buʃ.ʁɛ/ | boucherais /buʃ.ʁɛ/ | boucherait /buʃ.ʁɛ/ | boucherions /bu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ | boucheriez /bu.ʃə.ʁje/ | boucheraient /buʃ.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 | bouche /buʃ/ | bouches /buʃ/ | bouche /buʃ/ | bouchions /bu.ʃjɔ̃/ | bouchiez /bu.ʃje/ | bouchent /buʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | bouchasse /bu.ʃas/ | bouchasses /bu.ʃas/ | bouchât /bu.ʃa/ | bouchassions /bu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ | bouchassiez /bu.ʃa.sje/ | bouchassent /bu.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bouche /buʃ/ | — | bouchons /bu.ʃɔ̃/ | bouchez /bu.ʃe/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- en boucher un coin
Related terms
- bouchon
See also
- bûcher
Further reading
- “boucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
boucher
- Alternative form of bocher