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boucler
boucler
French
Verb
boucler
- (transitive) to buckle (to fasten)
- (transitive) to curl (make curly)
- (transitive) to tie up (close, finish (e.g. an affair or case))
- (transitive, colloquial) to shut
- (intransitive) to curl up (become curly)
Conjugation
Conjugation of boucler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | boucler | avoir bouclé | |||||
| gerund | en bouclant | en ayant bouclé | |||||
| present participle | bouclant /bu.klɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | bouclé /bu.kle/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | boucle /bukl/ |
boucles /bukl/ |
boucle /bukl/ |
bouclons /bu.klɔ̃/ |
bouclez /bu.kle/ |
bouclent /bukl/ |
| imperfect | bouclais /bu.klɛ/ |
bouclais /bu.klɛ/ |
bouclait /bu.klɛ/ |
bouclions /bu.kli.jɔ̃/ |
boucliez /bu.kli.je/ |
bouclaient /bu.klɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | bouclai /bu.kle/ |
bouclas /bu.kla/ |
boucla /bu.kla/ |
bouclâmes /bu.klam/ |
bouclâtes /bu.klat/ |
bouclèrent /bu.klɛʁ/ |
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| future | bouclerai /bu.klə.ʁe/ |
boucleras /bu.klə.ʁa/ |
bouclera /bu.klə.ʁa/ |
bouclerons /bu.klə.ʁɔ̃/ |
bouclerez /bu.klə.ʁe/ |
boucleront /bu.klə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | bouclerais /bu.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bouclerais /bu.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bouclerait /bu.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bouclerions /bu.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boucleriez /bu.klə.ʁje/ |
boucleraient /bu.klə.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 | boucle /bukl/ |
boucles /bukl/ |
boucle /bukl/ |
bouclions /bu.kli.jɔ̃/ |
boucliez /bu.kli.je/ |
bouclent /bukl/ |
| imperfect1 |
bouclasse /bu.klas/ |
bouclasses /bu.klas/ |
bouclât /bu.kla/ |
bouclassions /bu.kla.sjɔ̃/ |
bouclassiez /bu.kla.sje/ |
bouclassent /bu.klas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | boucle /bukl/ |
— | bouclons /bu.klɔ̃/ |
bouclez /bu.kle/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- bouclage
- boucler la boucle