bousculer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bus.ky.le/

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Verb

bousculer

1. to shove, to bump into, to jostle

Conjugation

Conjugation of bousculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bousculer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bousculant /bus.ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bousculé /bus.ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bouscule /bus.kyl/	bouscules /bus.kyl/	bouscule /bus.kyl/	bousculons /bus.ky.lɔ̃/	bousculez /bus.ky.le/	bousculent /bus.kyl/
	imperfect	bousculais /bus.ky.lɛ/	bousculais /bus.ky.lɛ/	bousculait /bus.ky.lɛ/	bousculions /bus.ky.ljɔ̃/	bousculiez /bus.ky.lje/	bousculaient /bus.ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	bousculai /bus.ky.le/	bousculas /bus.ky.la/	bouscula /bus.ky.la/	bousculâmes /bus.ky.lam/	bousculâtes /bus.ky.lat/	bousculèrent /bus.ky.lɛʁ/
	future	bousculerai /bus.kyl.ʁe/	bousculeras /bus.kyl.ʁa/	bousculera /bus.kyl.ʁa/	bousculerons /bus.kyl.ʁɔ̃/	bousculerez /bus.kyl.ʁe/	bousculeront /bus.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bousculerais /bus.kyl.ʁɛ/	bousculerais /bus.kyl.ʁɛ/	bousculerait /bus.kyl.ʁɛ/	bousculerions /bus.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	bousculeriez /bus.ky.lə.ʁje/	bousculeraient /bus.kyl.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	bouscule /bus.kyl/	bouscules /bus.kyl/	bouscule /bus.kyl/	bousculions /bus.ky.ljɔ̃/	bousculiez /bus.ky.lje/	bousculent /bus.kyl/
	imperfect2	bousculasse /bus.ky.las/	bousculasses /bus.ky.las/	bousculât /bus.ky.la/	bousculassions /bus.ky.la.sjɔ̃/	bousculassiez /bus.ky.la.sje/	bousculassent /bus.ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bouscule /bus.kyl/	—	bousculons /bus.ky.lɔ̃/	bousculez /bus.ky.le/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ne pas se bousculer au portillon

Related terms

• bousculade

Further reading

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