bouffir
French
Pronunciation
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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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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