bourser

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

bourser

1. Alternative form of bercer

Conjugation

Conjugation of bourser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bourser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	boursant /buʁ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		boursé /buʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bourse /buʁs/	bourses /buʁs/	bourse /buʁs/	boursons /buʁ.sɔ̃/	boursez /buʁ.se/	boursent /buʁs/
	imperfect	boursais /buʁ.sɛ/	boursais /buʁ.sɛ/	boursait /buʁ.sɛ/	boursions /buʁ.sjɔ̃/	boursiez /buʁ.sje/	boursaient /buʁ.sɛ/
	past historic2	boursai /buʁ.se/	boursas /buʁ.sa/	boursa /buʁ.sa/	boursâmes /buʁ.sam/	boursâtes /buʁ.sat/	boursèrent /buʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	bourserai /buʁ.sə.ʁe/	bourseras /buʁ.sə.ʁa/	boursera /buʁ.sə.ʁa/	bourserons /buʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	bourserez /buʁ.sə.ʁe/	bourseront /buʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bourserais /buʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	bourserais /buʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	bourserait /buʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	bourserions /buʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	bourseriez /buʁ.sə.ʁje/	bourseraient /buʁ.sə.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	bourse /buʁs/	bourses /buʁs/	bourse /buʁs/	boursions /buʁ.sjɔ̃/	boursiez /buʁ.sje/	boursent /buʁs/
	imperfect2	boursasse /buʁ.sas/	boursasses /buʁ.sas/	boursât /buʁ.sa/	boursassions /buʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	boursassiez /buʁ.sa.sje/	boursassent /buʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bourse /buʁs/	—	boursons /buʁ.sɔ̃/	boursez /buʁ.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).