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boucaner
boucaner
French
Verb
boucaner
- to smoke meat
- Ces grands foyers et ces tuyaux multipliés servaient encore à conserver les viandes en les boucanant. (Prosper Mérimée, Lettres à Viollet-le-Duc, 1870)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of boucaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | boucaner | avoir boucané | |||||
| gerund | en boucanant | en ayant boucané | |||||
| present participle | boucanant /bu.ka.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | boucané /bu.ka.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | boucane /bu.kan/ |
boucanes /bu.kan/ |
boucane /bu.kan/ |
boucanons /bu.ka.nɔ̃/ |
boucanez /bu.ka.ne/ |
boucanent /bu.kan/ |
| imperfect | boucanais /bu.ka.nɛ/ |
boucanais /bu.ka.nɛ/ |
boucanait /bu.ka.nɛ/ |
boucanions /bu.ka.njɔ̃/ |
boucaniez /bu.ka.nje/ |
boucanaient /bu.ka.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | boucanai /bu.ka.ne/ |
boucanas /bu.ka.na/ |
boucana /bu.ka.na/ |
boucanâmes /bu.ka.nam/ |
boucanâtes /bu.ka.nat/ |
boucanèrent /bu.ka.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | boucanerai /bu.kan.ʁe/ |
boucaneras /bu.kan.ʁa/ |
boucanera /bu.kan.ʁa/ |
boucanerons /bu.kan.ʁɔ̃/ |
boucanerez /bu.kan.ʁe/ |
boucaneront /bu.kan.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | boucanerais /bu.kan.ʁɛ/ |
boucanerais /bu.kan.ʁɛ/ |
boucanerait /bu.kan.ʁɛ/ |
boucanerions /bu.ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boucaneriez /bu.ka.nə.ʁje/ |
boucaneraient /bu.kan.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | boucane /bu.kan/ |
boucanes /bu.kan/ |
boucane /bu.kan/ |
boucanions /bu.ka.njɔ̃/ |
boucaniez /bu.ka.nje/ |
boucanent /bu.kan/ |
| imperfect1 |
boucanasse /bu.ka.nas/ |
boucanasses /bu.ka.nas/ |
boucanât /bu.ka.na/ |
boucanassions /bu.ka.na.sjɔ̃/ |
boucanassiez /bu.ka.na.sje/ |
boucanassent /bu.ka.nas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | boucane /bu.kan/ |
— | boucanons /bu.ka.nɔ̃/ |
boucanez /bu.ka.ne/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- “boucaner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).