boucaner

French

Etymology

From boucan +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ka.ne/

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Verb

boucaner

1. to smoke meat
   • 1870, Prosper Mérimée, Lettres à Viollet-le-Duc:

     ’Ces grands foyers et ces tuyaux multipliés servaient encore à conserver les viandes en les boucanant.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of boucaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	boucaner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	boucanant /bu.ka.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		boucané /bu.ka.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	boucane /bu.kan/	boucanes /bu.kan/	boucane /bu.kan/	boucanons /bu.ka.nɔ̃/	boucanez /bu.ka.ne/	boucanent /bu.kan/
	imperfect	boucanais /bu.ka.nɛ/	boucanais /bu.ka.nɛ/	boucanait /bu.ka.nɛ/	boucanions /bu.ka.njɔ̃/	boucaniez /bu.ka.nje/	boucanaient /bu.ka.nɛ/
	past historic2	boucanai /bu.ka.ne/	boucanas /bu.ka.na/	boucana /bu.ka.na/	boucanâmes /bu.ka.nam/	boucanâtes /bu.ka.nat/	boucanèrent /bu.ka.nɛʁ/
	future	boucanerai /bu.kan.ʁe/	boucaneras /bu.kan.ʁa/	boucanera /bu.kan.ʁa/	boucanerons /bu.kan.ʁɔ̃/	boucanerez /bu.kan.ʁe/	boucaneront /bu.kan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	boucanerais /bu.kan.ʁɛ/	boucanerais /bu.kan.ʁɛ/	boucanerait /bu.kan.ʁɛ/	boucanerions /bu.ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	boucaneriez /bu.ka.nə.ʁje/	boucaneraient /bu.kan.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	boucane /bu.kan/	boucanes /bu.kan/	boucane /bu.kan/	boucanions /bu.ka.njɔ̃/	boucaniez /bu.ka.nje/	boucanent /bu.kan/
	imperfect2	boucanasse /bu.ka.nas/	boucanasses /bu.ka.nas/	boucanât /bu.ka.na/	boucanassions /bu.ka.na.sjɔ̃/	boucanassiez /bu.ka.na.sje/	boucanassent /bu.ka.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	boucane /bu.kan/	—	boucanons /bu.ka.nɔ̃/	boucanez /bu.ka.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).

Related terms

• boucanier

References

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

Further reading

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