bouillir
French
Etymology
From Middle French bouillir, from Old French boillir (“to boil, burst”), inherited from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“to bubble”), derived from Latin bulla (“bubble, bud, button”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.jiʁ/
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Verb
bouillir
- (intransitive) to boil (becoming boiling; reach boiling point)
- (transitive) to boil (cause to boil)
- (figuratively) to seethe
Conjugation
Conjugation of bouillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bouillir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bouillant /bu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bouilli /bu.ji/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | bous /bu/ | bous /bu/ | bout /bu/ | bouillons /bu.jɔ̃/ | bouillez /bu.je/ | bouillent /buj/ |
| imperfect | bouillais /bu.jɛ/ | bouillais /bu.jɛ/ | bouillait /bu.jɛ/ | bouillions /buj.jɔ̃/ | bouilliez /buj.je/ | bouillaient /bu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bouillis /bu.ji/ | bouillis /bu.ji/ | bouillit /bu.ji/ | bouillîmes /bu.jim/ | bouillîtes /bu.jit/ | bouillirent /bu.jiʁ/ | |
| future | bouillirai /bu.ji.ʁe/ | bouilliras /bu.ji.ʁa/ | bouillira /bu.ji.ʁa/ | bouillirons /bu.ji.ʁɔ̃/ | bouillirez /bu.ji.ʁe/ | bouilliront /bu.ji.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bouillirais /bu.ji.ʁɛ/ | bouillirais /bu.ji.ʁɛ/ | bouillirait /bu.ji.ʁɛ/ | bouillirions /bu.ji.ʁjɔ̃/ | bouilliriez /bu.ji.ʁje/ | bouilliraient /bu.ji.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 | bouille /buj/ | bouilles /buj/ | bouille /buj/ | bouillions /buj.jɔ̃/ | bouilliez /buj.je/ | bouillent /buj/ |
| imperfect2 | bouillisse /bu.jis/ | bouillisses /bu.jis/ | bouillît /bu.ji/ | bouillissions /bu.ji.sjɔ̃/ | bouillissiez /bu.ji.sje/ | bouillissent /bu.jis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bous /bu/ | — | bouillons /bu.jɔ̃/ | bouillez /bu.je/ | — | |
| 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
- faire bouillir la marmite
Related terms
- bouillabaisse
- bouillant
- ébouillanter
- bouilloire
- bouillon
- bulle
- ébullition
Further reading
- “bouillir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Verb
bouillir
- to boil