bâcler
French
Etymology
Perhaps from unattested Middle French and Old French bâcler, bacler (“to hold in place, prop a door or window open”). From Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum (“rod, staff used for support”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-. Indirectly attested in Old French desbacler (“to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading”).
The hypothesis of a derivation from Middle Dutch bakkelen (“to freeze artificially, lock in place”), from bakken (“to stick, stick hard, glue together”) has been discredited by the lack of attestation of bakkelen in Middle Dutch and by it having only the meaning "freeze superficially" in Dutch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑ.kle/
Verb
bâcler
- (transitive) to bang out (a task)
Conjugation
Conjugation of bâcler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bâcler | avoir bâclé | |||||
| gerund | en bâclant | en ayant bâclé | |||||
| present participle | bâclant /bɑ.klɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | bâclé /bɑ.kle/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâcles /bɑkl/ |
bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâclons /bɑ.klɔ̃/ |
bâclez /bɑ.kle/ |
bâclent /bɑkl/ |
| imperfect | bâclais /bɑ.klɛ/ |
bâclais /bɑ.klɛ/ |
bâclait /bɑ.klɛ/ |
bâclions /bɑ.kli.jɔ̃/ |
bâcliez /bɑ.kli.je/ |
bâclaient /bɑ.klɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | bâclai /bɑ.kle/ |
bâclas /bɑ.kla/ |
bâcla /bɑ.kla/ |
bâclâmes /bɑ.klam/ |
bâclâtes /bɑ.klat/ |
bâclèrent /bɑ.klɛʁ/ | |
| future | bâclerai /bɑ.klə.ʁe/ |
bâcleras /bɑ.klə.ʁa/ |
bâclera /bɑ.klə.ʁa/ |
bâclerons /bɑ.klə.ʁɔ̃/ |
bâclerez /bɑ.klə.ʁe/ |
bâcleront /bɑ.klə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bâclerais /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bâclerais /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bâclerait /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bâclerions /bɑ.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bâcleriez /bɑ.klə.ʁje/ |
bâcleraient /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâcles /bɑkl/ |
bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâclions /bɑ.kli.jɔ̃/ |
bâcliez /bɑ.kli.je/ |
bâclent /bɑkl/ |
| imperfect1 | bâclasse /bɑ.klas/ |
bâclasses /bɑ.klas/ |
bâclât /bɑ.kla/ |
bâclassions /bɑ.kla.sjɔ̃/ |
bâclassiez /bɑ.kla.sje/ |
bâclassent /bɑ.klas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | bâcle /bɑkl/ |
— | bâclons /bɑ.klɔ̃/ |
bâclez /bɑ.kle/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “bâcler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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