bousiller
French
Alternative forms
- bouziller
Etymology
bouse + -iller
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.zi.je/
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Verb
bousiller
- (colloquial) to wreck, smash up
- (colloquial) to botch, screw up
- (masonry) to do work in bousillage
Conjugation
Conjugation of bousiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | bousiller | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | bousillant /bu.zi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bousillé /bu.zi.je/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | bousille /bu.zij/ | bousilles /bu.zij/ | bousille /bu.zij/ | bousillons /bu.zi.jɔ̃/ | bousillez /bu.zi.je/ | bousillent /bu.zij/ |
imperfect | bousillais /bu.zi.jɛ/ | bousillais /bu.zi.jɛ/ | bousillait /bu.zi.jɛ/ | bousillions /bu.zij.jɔ̃/ | bousilliez /bu.zij.je/ | bousillaient /bu.zi.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | bousillai /bu.zi.je/ | bousillas /bu.zi.ja/ | bousilla /bu.zi.ja/ | bousillâmes /bu.zi.jam/ | bousillâtes /bu.zi.jat/ | bousillèrent /bu.zi.jɛʁ/ | |
future | bousillerai /bu.zij.ʁe/ | bousilleras /bu.zij.ʁa/ | bousillera /bu.zij.ʁa/ | bousillerons /bu.zij.ʁɔ̃/ | bousillerez /bu.zij.ʁe/ | bousilleront /bu.zij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | bousillerais /bu.zij.ʁɛ/ | bousillerais /bu.zij.ʁɛ/ | bousillerait /bu.zij.ʁɛ/ | bousillerions /bu.zi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | bousilleriez /bu.zi.jə.ʁje/ | bousilleraient /bu.zij.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 | bousille /bu.zij/ | bousilles /bu.zij/ | bousille /bu.zij/ | bousillions /bu.zij.jɔ̃/ | bousilliez /bu.zij.je/ | bousillent /bu.zij/ |
imperfect2 | bousillasse /bu.zi.jas/ | bousillasses /bu.zi.jas/ | bousillât /bu.zi.ja/ | bousillassions /bu.zi.ja.sjɔ̃/ | bousillassiez /bu.zi.ja.sje/ | bousillassent /bu.zi.jas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | bousille /bu.zij/ | — | bousillons /bu.zi.jɔ̃/ | bousillez /bu.zi.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
- bousillage
- bousilleur
- bousilleux
Further reading
- “bousiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.