bouchonner
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.ʃɔ.ne/
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Verb
bouchonner
- (transitive) to rub down
- (intransitive) for the traffic to come to a standstill, for there to be a traffic jam
- Ça bouchonne sur l’autoroute. ― There's a traffic jam on the motorway (UK) or freeway (US).
Conjugation
Conjugation of bouchonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bouchonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bouchonnant /bu.ʃɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bouchonné /bu.ʃɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/ |
bouchonnes /bu.ʃɔn/ |
bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/ |
bouchonnons /bu.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/ |
bouchonnez /bu.ʃɔ.ne/ |
bouchonnent /bu.ʃɔn/ |
| imperfect | bouchonnais /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/ |
bouchonnais /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/ |
bouchonnait /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/ |
bouchonnions /bu.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/ |
bouchonniez /bu.ʃɔ.nje/ |
bouchonnaient /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bouchonnai /bu.ʃɔ.ne/ |
bouchonnas /bu.ʃɔ.na/ |
bouchonna /bu.ʃɔ.na/ |
bouchonnâmes /bu.ʃɔ.nam/ |
bouchonnâtes /bu.ʃɔ.nat/ |
bouchonnèrent /bu.ʃɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | bouchonnerai /bu.ʃɔn.ʁe/ |
bouchonneras /bu.ʃɔn.ʁa/ |
bouchonnera /bu.ʃɔn.ʁa/ |
bouchonnerons /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
bouchonnerez /bu.ʃɔn.ʁe/ |
bouchonneront /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bouchonnerais /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/ |
bouchonnerais /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/ |
bouchonnerait /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/ |
bouchonnerions /bu.ʃɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bouchonneriez /bu.ʃɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
bouchonneraient /bu.ʃɔn.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 | bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/ |
bouchonnes /bu.ʃɔn/ |
bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/ |
bouchonnions /bu.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/ |
bouchonniez /bu.ʃɔ.nje/ |
bouchonnent /bu.ʃɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | bouchonnasse /bu.ʃɔ.nas/ |
bouchonnasses /bu.ʃɔ.nas/ |
bouchonnât /bu.ʃɔ.na/ |
bouchonnassions /bu.ʃɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
bouchonnassiez /bu.ʃɔ.na.sje/ |
bouchonnassent /bu.ʃɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/ |
— | bouchonnons /bu.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/ |
bouchonnez /bu.ʃɔ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
See also
Further reading
- “bouchonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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