blackbouler
French
Etymology
Partial calque of English blackball. See boule.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blak.bu.le/
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Verb
blackbouler
- (transitive) to blackball
Conjugation
Conjugation of blackbouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | blackbouler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | blackboulant /blak.bu.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | blackboulé /blak.bu.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | blackboule /blak.bul/ |
blackboules /blak.bul/ |
blackboule /blak.bul/ |
blackboulons /blak.bu.lɔ̃/ |
blackboulez /blak.bu.le/ |
blackboulent /blak.bul/ |
| imperfect | blackboulais /blak.bu.lɛ/ |
blackboulais /blak.bu.lɛ/ |
blackboulait /blak.bu.lɛ/ |
blackboulions /blak.bu.ljɔ̃/ |
blackbouliez /blak.bu.lje/ |
blackboulaient /blak.bu.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | blackboulai /blak.bu.le/ |
blackboulas /blak.bu.la/ |
blackboula /blak.bu.la/ |
blackboulâmes /blak.bu.lam/ |
blackboulâtes /blak.bu.lat/ |
blackboulèrent /blak.bu.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | blackboulerai /blak.bul.ʁe/ |
blackbouleras /blak.bul.ʁa/ |
blackboulera /blak.bul.ʁa/ |
blackboulerons /blak.bul.ʁɔ̃/ |
blackboulerez /blak.bul.ʁe/ |
blackbouleront /blak.bul.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | blackboulerais /blak.bul.ʁɛ/ |
blackboulerais /blak.bul.ʁɛ/ |
blackboulerait /blak.bul.ʁɛ/ |
blackboulerions /blak.bu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
blackbouleriez /blak.bu.lə.ʁje/ |
blackbouleraient /blak.bul.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | blackboule /blak.bul/ |
blackboules /blak.bul/ |
blackboule /blak.bul/ |
blackboulions /blak.bu.ljɔ̃/ |
blackbouliez /blak.bu.lje/ |
blackboulent /blak.bul/ |
| imperfect2 | blackboulasse /blak.bu.las/ |
blackboulasses /blak.bu.las/ |
blackboulât /blak.bu.la/ |
blackboulassions /blak.bu.la.sjɔ̃/ |
blackboulassiez /blak.bu.la.sje/ |
blackboulassent /blak.bu.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | blackboule /blak.bul/ |
— | blackboulons /blak.bu.lɔ̃/ |
blackboulez /blak.bu.le/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “blackbouler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.