bouffir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

bouffir

1. to cause to become swollen or puffy
2. to puff up

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of bouffir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bouffir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bouffissant /bu.fi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bouffi /bu.fi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bouffis /bu.fi/	bouffis /bu.fi/	bouffit /bu.fi/	bouffissons /bu.fi.sɔ̃/	bouffissez /bu.fi.se/	bouffissent /bu.fis/
	imperfect	bouffissais /bu.fi.sɛ/	bouffissais /bu.fi.sɛ/	bouffissait /bu.fi.sɛ/	bouffissions /bu.fi.sjɔ̃/	bouffissiez /bu.fi.sje/	bouffissaient /bu.fi.sɛ/
	past historic2	bouffis /bu.fi/	bouffis /bu.fi/	bouffit /bu.fi/	bouffîmes /bu.fim/	bouffîtes /bu.fit/	bouffirent /bu.fiʁ/
	future	bouffirai /bu.fi.ʁe/	bouffiras /bu.fi.ʁa/	bouffira /bu.fi.ʁa/	bouffirons /bu.fi.ʁɔ̃/	bouffirez /bu.fi.ʁe/	bouffiront /bu.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bouffirais /bu.fi.ʁɛ/	bouffirais /bu.fi.ʁɛ/	bouffirait /bu.fi.ʁɛ/	bouffirions /bu.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	bouffiriez /bu.fi.ʁje/	bouffiraient /bu.fi.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	bouffisse /bu.fis/	bouffisses /bu.fis/	bouffisse /bu.fis/	bouffissions /bu.fi.sjɔ̃/	bouffissiez /bu.fi.sje/	bouffissent /bu.fis/
	imperfect2	bouffisse /bu.fis/	bouffisses /bu.fis/	bouffît /bu.fi/	bouffissions /bu.fi.sjɔ̃/	bouffissiez /bu.fi.sje/	bouffissent /bu.fis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bouffis /bu.fi/	—	bouffissons /bu.fi.sɔ̃/	bouffissez /bu.fi.se/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “bouffir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.