bouturer

French

Etymology

From bouture.

Pronunciation

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Verb

bouturer

1. to stick (propagate plants by cuttings)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bouturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bouturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bouturant /bu.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bouturé /bu.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bouture /bu.tyʁ/	boutures /bu.tyʁ/	bouture /bu.tyʁ/	bouturons /bu.ty.ʁɔ̃/	bouturez /bu.ty.ʁe/	bouturent /bu.tyʁ/
	imperfect	bouturais /bu.ty.ʁɛ/	bouturais /bu.ty.ʁɛ/	bouturait /bu.ty.ʁɛ/	bouturions /bu.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	bouturiez /bu.ty.ʁje/	bouturaient /bu.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	bouturai /bu.ty.ʁe/	bouturas /bu.ty.ʁa/	boutura /bu.ty.ʁa/	bouturâmes /bu.ty.ʁam/	bouturâtes /bu.ty.ʁat/	bouturèrent /bu.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	bouturerai /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	boutureras /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	bouturera /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	bouturerons /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	bouturerez /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	boutureront /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bouturerais /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	bouturerais /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	bouturerait /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	bouturerions /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	boutureriez /bu.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	boutureraient /bu.ty.ʁə.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	bouture /bu.tyʁ/	boutures /bu.tyʁ/	bouture /bu.tyʁ/	bouturions /bu.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	bouturiez /bu.ty.ʁje/	bouturent /bu.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	bouturasse /bu.ty.ʁas/	bouturasses /bu.ty.ʁas/	bouturât /bu.ty.ʁa/	bouturassions /bu.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	bouturassiez /bu.ty.ʁa.sje/	bouturassent /bu.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bouture /bu.tyʁ/	—	bouturons /bu.ty.ʁɔ̃/	bouturez /bu.ty.ʁe/	—
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

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