bambocher

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

bambocher

1. to feast (celebrate enthusiastically)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bambocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bambocher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bambochant /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bamboché /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bamboche /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	bamboches /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	bamboche /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	bambochons /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɔ̃/	bambochez /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃe/	bambochent /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/
	imperfect	bambochais /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɛ/	bambochais /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɛ/	bambochait /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɛ/	bambochions /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	bambochiez /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃje/	bambochaient /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	bambochai /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃe/	bambochas /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃa/	bambocha /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃa/	bambochâmes /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃam/	bambochâtes /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃat/	bambochèrent /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	bambocherai /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁe/	bambocheras /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁa/	bambochera /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁa/	bambocherons /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/	bambocherez /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁe/	bambocheront /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bambocherais /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁɛ/	bambocherais /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁɛ/	bambocherait /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.ʁɛ/	bambocherions /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	bambocheriez /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃə.ʁje/	bambocheraient /bɑ̃.bɔʃ.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	bamboche /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	bamboches /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	bamboche /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	bambochions /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	bambochiez /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃje/	bambochent /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/
	imperfect2	bambochasse /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃas/	bambochasses /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃas/	bambochât /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃa/	bambochassions /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	bambochassiez /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃa.sje/	bambochassent /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bamboche /bɑ̃.bɔʃ/	—	bambochons /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃɔ̃/	bambochez /bɑ̃.bɔ.ʃe/	—
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

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