ébousiner

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ bousin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ébousiner

1. to remove the 'soft crust' of a stone (which it has when taken out of the quarry)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébousiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébousiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébousinant /e.bu.zi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébousiné /e.bu.zi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébousine /e.bu.zin/	ébousines /e.bu.zin/	ébousine /e.bu.zin/	ébousinons /e.bu.zi.nɔ̃/	ébousinez /e.bu.zi.ne/	ébousinent /e.bu.zin/
	imperfect	ébousinais /e.bu.zi.nɛ/	ébousinais /e.bu.zi.nɛ/	ébousinait /e.bu.zi.nɛ/	ébousinions /e.bu.zi.njɔ̃/	ébousiniez /e.bu.zi.nje/	ébousinaient /e.bu.zi.nɛ/
	past historic2	ébousinai /e.bu.zi.ne/	ébousinas /e.bu.zi.na/	ébousina /e.bu.zi.na/	ébousinâmes /e.bu.zi.nam/	ébousinâtes /e.bu.zi.nat/	ébousinèrent /e.bu.zi.nɛʁ/
	future	ébousinerai /e.bu.zin.ʁe/	ébousineras /e.bu.zin.ʁa/	ébousinera /e.bu.zin.ʁa/	ébousinerons /e.bu.zin.ʁɔ̃/	ébousinerez /e.bu.zin.ʁe/	ébousineront /e.bu.zin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébousinerais /e.bu.zin.ʁɛ/	ébousinerais /e.bu.zin.ʁɛ/	ébousinerait /e.bu.zin.ʁɛ/	ébousinerions /e.bu.zi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ébousineriez /e.bu.zi.nə.ʁje/	ébousineraient /e.bu.zin.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	ébousine /e.bu.zin/	ébousines /e.bu.zin/	ébousine /e.bu.zin/	ébousinions /e.bu.zi.njɔ̃/	ébousiniez /e.bu.zi.nje/	ébousinent /e.bu.zin/
	imperfect2	ébousinasse /e.bu.zi.nas/	ébousinasses /e.bu.zi.nas/	ébousinât /e.bu.zi.na/	ébousinassions /e.bu.zi.na.sjɔ̃/	ébousinassiez /e.bu.zi.na.sje/	ébousinassent /e.bu.zi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébousine /e.bu.zin/	—	ébousinons /e.bu.zi.nɔ̃/	ébousinez /e.bu.zi.ne/	—
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

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