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bachoter
bachoter
French
Verb
bachoter
- (colloquial) to cram (revise hard for an exam, especially for a baccalauréat exam)
Conjugation
Conjugation of bachoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | bachoter | avoir bachoté | |||||
| gerund | en bachotant | en ayant bachoté | |||||
| present participle | bachotant /ba.ʃɔ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | bachoté /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotes /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotons /ba.ʃɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bachotez /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
bachotent /ba.ʃɔt/ |
| imperfect | bachotais /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
bachotais /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
bachotait /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
bachotions /ba.ʃɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bachotiez /ba.ʃɔ.tje/ |
bachotaient /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | bachotai /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
bachotas /ba.ʃɔ.ta/ |
bachota /ba.ʃɔ.ta/ |
bachotâmes /ba.ʃɔ.tam/ |
bachotâtes /ba.ʃɔ.tat/ |
bachotèrent /ba.ʃɔ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | bachoterai /ba.ʃɔ.tʁe/ |
bachoteras /ba.ʃɔ.tʁa/ |
bachotera /ba.ʃɔ.tʁa/ |
bachoterons /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
bachoterez /ba.ʃɔ.tʁe/ |
bachoteront /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | bachoterais /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bachoterais /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bachoterait /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bachoterions /ba.ʃɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bachoteriez /ba.ʃɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
bachoteraient /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotes /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotions /ba.ʃɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bachotiez /ba.ʃɔ.tje/ |
bachotent /ba.ʃɔt/ |
| imperfect1 |
bachotasse /ba.ʃɔ.tas/ |
bachotasses /ba.ʃɔ.tas/ |
bachotât /ba.ʃɔ.ta/ |
bachotassions /ba.ʃɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bachotassiez /ba.ʃɔ.ta.sje/ |
bachotassent /ba.ʃɔ.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
— | bachotons /ba.ʃɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bachotez /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
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Derived terms
- bachotage noun m