bouffir
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
bouffir
- to cause to become swollen or puffy
- to puff up
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of bouffir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | bouffir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | bouffissant /bu.fi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bouffi /bu.fi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | bouffis /bu.fi/ | bouffis /bu.fi/ | bouffit /bu.fi/ | bouffissons /bu.fi.sɔ̃/ | bouffissez /bu.fi.se/ | bouffissent /bu.fis/ |
imperfect | bouffissais /bu.fi.sɛ/ | bouffissais /bu.fi.sɛ/ | bouffissait /bu.fi.sɛ/ | bouffissions /bu.fi.sjɔ̃/ | bouffissiez /bu.fi.sje/ | bouffissaient /bu.fi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | bouffis /bu.fi/ | bouffis /bu.fi/ | bouffit /bu.fi/ | bouffîmes /bu.fim/ | bouffîtes /bu.fit/ | bouffirent /bu.fiʁ/ | |
future | bouffirai /bu.fi.ʁe/ | bouffiras /bu.fi.ʁa/ | bouffira /bu.fi.ʁa/ | bouffirons /bu.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | bouffirez /bu.fi.ʁe/ | bouffiront /bu.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | bouffirais /bu.fi.ʁɛ/ | bouffirais /bu.fi.ʁɛ/ | bouffirait /bu.fi.ʁɛ/ | bouffirions /bu.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ | bouffiriez /bu.fi.ʁje/ | bouffiraient /bu.fi.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 | bouffisse /bu.fis/ | bouffisses /bu.fis/ | bouffisse /bu.fis/ | bouffissions /bu.fi.sjɔ̃/ | bouffissiez /bu.fi.sje/ | bouffissent /bu.fis/ |
imperfect2 | bouffisse /bu.fis/ | bouffisses /bu.fis/ | bouffît /bu.fi/ | bouffissions /bu.fi.sjɔ̃/ | bouffissiez /bu.fi.sje/ | bouffissent /bu.fis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | bouffis /bu.fi/ | — | bouffissons /bu.fi.sɔ̃/ | bouffissez /bu.fi.se/ | — | |
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). |
Further reading
- “bouffir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.