bouillir
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French boillir (“to boil, burst”), inherited from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“to bubble”), derived from Latin bulla (“bubble, bud, button”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.jiʁ/
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Verb
bouillir
- (intransitive) to boil (becoming boiling; reach boiling point)
- (transitive) to boil (cause to boil)
- (figuratively) to seethe
Conjugation
Conjugation of bouillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bouillir | avoir bouilli | |||||
| gerund | en bouillant | en ayant bouilli | |||||
| present participle | bouillant /bu.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | bouilli /bu.ji/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bous /bu/ |
bous /bu/ |
bout /bu/ |
bouillons /bu.jɔ̃/ |
bouillez /bu.je/ |
bouillent /buj/ |
| imperfect | bouillais /bu.jɛ/ |
bouillais /bu.jɛ/ |
bouillait /bu.jɛ/ |
bouillions /buj.jɔ̃/ |
bouilliez /buj.je/ |
bouillaient /bu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | bouillis /bu.ji/ |
bouillis /bu.ji/ |
bouillit /bu.ji/ |
bouillîmes /bu.jim/ |
bouillîtes /bu.jit/ |
bouillirent /bu.jiʁ/ | |
| future | bouillirai /bu.ji.ʁe/ |
bouilliras /bu.ji.ʁa/ |
bouillira /bu.ji.ʁa/ |
bouillirons /bu.ji.ʁɔ̃/ |
bouillirez /bu.ji.ʁe/ |
bouilliront /bu.ji.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bouillirais /bu.ji.ʁɛ/ |
bouillirais /bu.ji.ʁɛ/ |
bouillirait /bu.ji.ʁɛ/ |
bouillirions /bu.ji.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bouilliriez /bu.ji.ʁje/ |
bouilliraient /bu.ji.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 | bouille /buj/ |
bouilles /buj/ |
bouille /buj/ |
bouillions /buj.jɔ̃/ |
bouilliez /buj.je/ |
bouillent /buj/ |
| imperfect1 | bouillisse /bu.jis/ |
bouillisses /bu.jis/ |
bouillît /bu.ji/ |
bouillissions /bu.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
bouillissiez /bu.ji.sje/ |
bouillissent /bu.jis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | bous /bu/ |
— | bouillons /bu.jɔ̃/ |
bouillez /bu.je/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “bouillir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Verb
bouillir
- to boil
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