bachoter
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bachoter
- (colloquial) to cram (revise hard for an exam, especially for a baccalauréat exam)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bachoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bachoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bachotant /ba.ʃɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bachoté /ba.ʃɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotes /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotons /ba.ʃɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bachotez /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
bachotent /ba.ʃɔt/ |
| imperfect | bachotais /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
bachotais /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
bachotait /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ |
bachotions /ba.ʃɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bachotiez /ba.ʃɔ.tje/ |
bachotaient /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bachotai /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
bachotas /ba.ʃɔ.ta/ |
bachota /ba.ʃɔ.ta/ |
bachotâmes /ba.ʃɔ.tam/ |
bachotâtes /ba.ʃɔ.tat/ |
bachotèrent /ba.ʃɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | bachoterai /ba.ʃɔ.tʁe/ |
bachoteras /ba.ʃɔ.tʁa/ |
bachotera /ba.ʃɔ.tʁa/ |
bachoterons /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
bachoterez /ba.ʃɔ.tʁe/ |
bachoteront /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bachoterais /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bachoterais /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bachoterait /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bachoterions /ba.ʃɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bachoteriez /ba.ʃɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
bachoteraient /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotes /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
bachotions /ba.ʃɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bachotiez /ba.ʃɔ.tje/ |
bachotent /ba.ʃɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | bachotasse /ba.ʃɔ.tas/ |
bachotasses /ba.ʃɔ.tas/ |
bachotât /ba.ʃɔ.ta/ |
bachotassions /ba.ʃɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bachotassiez /ba.ʃɔ.ta.sje/ |
bachotassent /ba.ʃɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bachote /ba.ʃɔt/ |
— | bachotons /ba.ʃɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bachotez /ba.ʃɔ.te/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- bachotage m (noun)
Further reading edit
- “bachoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "bachoter"