boucler
French
Etymology
14th century, from boucle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.kle/
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Verb
boucler
- (transitive) to buckle (to fasten)
- (transitive) to curl (make curly)
- (transitive, figurative) to tie up, to finish up (e.g. an affair or case)
- (transitive, colloquial) to shut
- 1965, Charles Aznavour, “Je te réchaufferai [I Will Warm You Up]”:
- Je fermerai fenêtres et persiennes / Je bouclerai la porte à double tour / Et en faisant une flambée, Hélène / Je te réchaufferai, je te réchaufferai
- I will close windows and shutters / I will shut the door with two turns of the key / And by making a fire, Helen / I will warm you up, I will warm you up
- (intransitive) to curl up (become curly)
Conjugation
Conjugation of boucler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | boucler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bouclant /bu.klɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bouclé /bu.kle/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | boucle /bukl/ |
boucles /bukl/ |
boucle /bukl/ |
bouclons /bu.klɔ̃/ |
bouclez /bu.kle/ |
bouclent /bukl/ |
| imperfect | bouclais /bu.klɛ/ |
bouclais /bu.klɛ/ |
bouclait /bu.klɛ/ |
bouclions /bu.kli.jɔ̃/ |
boucliez /bu.kli.je/ |
bouclaient /bu.klɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bouclai /bu.kle/ |
bouclas /bu.kla/ |
boucla /bu.kla/ |
bouclâmes /bu.klam/ |
bouclâtes /bu.klat/ |
bouclèrent /bu.klɛʁ/ | |
| future | bouclerai /bu.klə.ʁe/ |
boucleras /bu.klə.ʁa/ |
bouclera /bu.klə.ʁa/ |
bouclerons /bu.klə.ʁɔ̃/ |
bouclerez /bu.klə.ʁe/ |
boucleront /bu.klə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bouclerais /bu.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bouclerais /bu.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bouclerait /bu.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bouclerions /bu.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boucleriez /bu.klə.ʁje/ |
boucleraient /bu.klə.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 | boucle /bukl/ |
boucles /bukl/ |
boucle /bukl/ |
bouclions /bu.kli.jɔ̃/ |
boucliez /bu.kli.je/ |
bouclent /bukl/ |
| imperfect2 | bouclasse /bu.klas/ |
bouclasses /bu.klas/ |
bouclât /bu.kla/ |
bouclassions /bu.kla.sjɔ̃/ |
bouclassiez /bu.kla.sje/ |
bouclassent /bu.klas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | boucle /bukl/ |
— | bouclons /bu.klɔ̃/ |
bouclez /bu.kle/ |
— | |
| 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
- “boucler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.