boycotter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]boycotter (plural boycotters)
- Someone who engages in a boycott
- 2009 January 18, Anthony Lewis, “A New National Scripture”, in New York Times[1]:
- As early as 1955 […] , he spoke in what Sundquist calls his “ornate metaphorical style,” evident in his first speech to the boycotters.
Translations
[edit]someone who engages in a boycott
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
English Charles Boycott
English boycott
French -er
French boycotter
From English boycott + French -er. Calque of English boycott.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]boycotter
- to boycott
- 1880 December 29, Édouard Bonnaffé, chapter 4, in Parlement, page 2:
- Sir Richard Wallace n'a pas encore été boycotté.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of boycotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | boycotter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | boycottant /bɔj.kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | boycotté /bɔj.kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/ |
boycottes /bɔj.kɔt/ |
boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/ |
boycottons /bɔj.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
boycottez /bɔj.kɔ.te/ |
boycottent /bɔj.kɔt/ |
| imperfect | boycottais /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/ |
boycottais /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/ |
boycottait /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/ |
boycottions /bɔj.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
boycottiez /bɔj.kɔ.tje/ |
boycottaient /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | boycottai /bɔj.kɔ.te/ |
boycottas /bɔj.kɔ.ta/ |
boycotta /bɔj.kɔ.ta/ |
boycottâmes /bɔj.kɔ.tam/ |
boycottâtes /bɔj.kɔ.tat/ |
boycottèrent /bɔj.kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | boycotterai /bɔj.kɔ.tʁe/ |
boycotteras /bɔj.kɔ.tʁa/ |
boycottera /bɔj.kɔ.tʁa/ |
boycotterons /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
boycotterez /bɔj.kɔ.tʁe/ |
boycotteront /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | boycotterais /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
boycotterais /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
boycotterait /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
boycotterions /bɔj.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boycotteriez /bɔj.kɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
boycotteraient /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/ |
boycottes /bɔj.kɔt/ |
boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/ |
boycottions /bɔj.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
boycottiez /bɔj.kɔ.tje/ |
boycottent /bɔj.kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | boycottasse /bɔj.kɔ.tas/ |
boycottasses /bɔj.kɔ.tas/ |
boycottât /bɔj.kɔ.ta/ |
boycottassions /bɔj.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
boycottassiez /bɔj.kɔ.ta.sje/ |
boycottassent /bɔj.kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/ |
— | boycottons /bɔj.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
boycottez /bɔj.kɔ.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
[edit]- boycott m
- boycotteur m
Further reading
[edit]- “boycotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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