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bosser
bosser
See also: bòsser
English
Noun
bosser (plural bossers)
- (Britain, dialect) A large marble.
- 1953, Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine (volume 27, page 60)
- […] the ultimate winner is the man with the greatest number of marbles when play comes to an end. The games at Battle at the present time are played with glass marbles and locally made “bossers” of concrete.
- 1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's games with things (page 54)
- Modern children, having only machine-made glass marbles, are restricted to names describing their size, or the names under which they are sold, or fanciful names of their own inventing. Thus big marbles are big 'uns, bossers, bulls or bullies […]
- 1953, Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine (volume 27, page 60)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ.se/
Verb
bosser
- (slang) to work (to do a task)
Conjugation
Conjugation of bosser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | bosser | avoir bossé | |||||
| gerund | en bossant | en ayant bossé | |||||
| present participle | bossant /bɔ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | bossé /bɔ.se/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bosse /bɔs/ |
bosses /bɔs/ |
bosse /bɔs/ |
bossons /bɔ.sɔ̃/ |
bossez /bɔ.se/ |
bossent /bɔs/ |
| imperfect | bossais /bɔ.sɛ/ |
bossais /bɔ.sɛ/ |
bossait /bɔ.sɛ/ |
bossions /bɔ.sjɔ̃/ |
bossiez /bɔ.sje/ |
bossaient /bɔ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | bossai /bɔ.se/ |
bossas /bɔ.sa/ |
bossa /bɔ.sa/ |
bossâmes /bɔ.sam/ |
bossâtes /bɔ.sat/ |
bossèrent /bɔ.sɛʁ/ |
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| future | bosserai /bɔ.sʁe/ |
bosseras /bɔ.sʁa/ |
bossera /bɔ.sʁa/ |
bosserons /bɔ.sʁɔ̃/ |
bosserez /bɔ.sʁe/ |
bosseront /bɔ.sʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | bosserais /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
bosserais /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
bosserait /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
bosserions /bɔ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bosseriez /bɔ.sə.ʁje/ |
bosseraient /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
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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 | bosse /bɔs/ |
bosses /bɔs/ |
bosse /bɔs/ |
bossions /bɔ.sjɔ̃/ |
bossiez /bɔ.sje/ |
bossent /bɔs/ |
| imperfect1 |
bossasse /bɔ.sas/ |
bossasses /bɔ.sas/ |
bossât /bɔ.sa/ |
bossassions /bɔ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
bossassiez /bɔ.sa.sje/ |
bossassent /bɔ.sas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | bosse /bɔs/ |
— | bossons /bɔ.sɔ̃/ |
bossez /bɔ.se/ |
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