bouffer
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French bouffer, originally "to puff up," from Medieval Latin buffa, itself echoic of puffing out cheeks.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.fe/
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Verb
bouffer
- (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) to eat
- (colloquial, transitive, figuratively) to eat, to worry
- Synonym: ronger
- Tous ces problèmes avec ma femme, ça me bouffe. ― All these problems with my wife are eating away at me
- (colloquial, transitive) to consume in excess
- Cette bagnole bouffe quinze litres aux cent facilement. ― This car gobbles fifteen liters per hundred (kilometres) easily.
- (colloquial, transitive) to bash (criticise harshly)
- Ce soir, on va bouffer du curé. ― Tonight, we will chew up the priest.
Conjugation
Conjugation of bouffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bouffer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bouffant /bu.fɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bouffé /bu.fe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bouffe /buf/ |
bouffes /buf/ |
bouffe /buf/ |
bouffons /bu.fɔ̃/ |
bouffez /bu.fe/ |
bouffent /buf/ |
| imperfect | bouffais /bu.fɛ/ |
bouffais /bu.fɛ/ |
bouffait /bu.fɛ/ |
bouffions /bu.fjɔ̃/ |
bouffiez /bu.fje/ |
bouffaient /bu.fɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bouffai /bu.fe/ |
bouffas /bu.fa/ |
bouffa /bu.fa/ |
bouffâmes /bu.fam/ |
bouffâtes /bu.fat/ |
bouffèrent /bu.fɛʁ/ | |
| future | boufferai /bu.fʁe/ |
boufferas /bu.fʁa/ |
bouffera /bu.fʁa/ |
boufferons /bu.fʁɔ̃/ |
boufferez /bu.fʁe/ |
boufferont /bu.fʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | boufferais /bu.fʁɛ/ |
boufferais /bu.fʁɛ/ |
boufferait /bu.fʁɛ/ |
boufferions /bu.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boufferiez /bu.fə.ʁje/ |
boufferaient /bu.fʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | bouffe /buf/ |
bouffes /buf/ |
bouffe /buf/ |
bouffions /bu.fjɔ̃/ |
bouffiez /bu.fje/ |
bouffent /buf/ |
| imperfect2 | bouffasse /bu.fas/ |
bouffasses /bu.fas/ |
bouffât /bu.fa/ |
bouffassions /bu.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
bouffassiez /bu.fa.sje/ |
bouffassent /bu.fas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bouffe /buf/ |
— | bouffons /bu.fɔ̃/ |
bouffez /bu.fe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “bouffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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