bouillir
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French bouillir, from Old French boillir (“to boil, burst”), inherited from Latin bullīre (“to bubble”), derived from Latin bulla (“bubble, bud, button”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bouillir
- (intransitive) to boil (becoming boiling; reach boiling point)
- (transitive) to boil (cause to boil)
- (figuratively) to seethe
Conjugation
[edit]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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bouillir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Verb
[edit]bouillir
- to boil
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