bûcher
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- bucher (1990 reform spelling)
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]bûcher m (plural bûchers)
- woodshed (enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood)
- pyre (funeral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned)
- stake (pile of wood on which a person condemned to death is burned)
- (in the plural) the flames of Hell
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]bûcher
- to hew
- (informal) to slug away, to hit the books
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of bûcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bûcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bûchant /by.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bûché /by.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bûche /byʃ/ |
bûches /byʃ/ |
bûche /byʃ/ |
bûchons /by.ʃɔ̃/ |
bûchez /by.ʃe/ |
bûchent /byʃ/ |
| imperfect | bûchais /by.ʃɛ/ |
bûchais /by.ʃɛ/ |
bûchait /by.ʃɛ/ |
bûchions /by.ʃjɔ̃/ |
bûchiez /by.ʃje/ |
bûchaient /by.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bûchai /by.ʃe/ |
bûchas /by.ʃa/ |
bûcha /by.ʃa/ |
bûchâmes /by.ʃam/ |
bûchâtes /by.ʃat/ |
bûchèrent /by.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | bûcherai /byʃ.ʁe/ |
bûcheras /byʃ.ʁa/ |
bûchera /byʃ.ʁa/ |
bûcherons /byʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
bûcherez /byʃ.ʁe/ |
bûcheront /byʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bûcherais /byʃ.ʁɛ/ |
bûcherais /byʃ.ʁɛ/ |
bûcherait /byʃ.ʁɛ/ |
bûcherions /by.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bûcheriez /by.ʃə.ʁje/ |
bûcheraient /byʃ.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 | bûche /byʃ/ |
bûches /byʃ/ |
bûche /byʃ/ |
bûchions /by.ʃjɔ̃/ |
bûchiez /by.ʃje/ |
bûchent /byʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | bûchasse /by.ʃas/ |
bûchasses /by.ʃas/ |
bûchât /by.ʃa/ |
bûchassions /by.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
bûchassiez /by.ʃa.sje/ |
bûchassent /by.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bûche /byʃ/ |
— | bûchons /by.ʃɔ̃/ |
bûchez /by.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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
[edit]- “bûcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.