bouchonner

French

Etymology

From bouchon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ʃɔ.ne/

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Verb

bouchonner

1. (transitive) to rub down
2. (intransitive) for the traffic to come to a standstill, for there to be a traffic jam

   Ça bouchonne sur l’autoroute. ― There's a traffic jam on the motorway (UK) or freeway (US).

Conjugation

Conjugation of bouchonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bouchonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bouchonnant /bu.ʃɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bouchonné /bu.ʃɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/	bouchonnes /bu.ʃɔn/	bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/	bouchonnons /bu.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	bouchonnez /bu.ʃɔ.ne/	bouchonnent /bu.ʃɔn/
	imperfect	bouchonnais /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/	bouchonnais /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/	bouchonnait /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/	bouchonnions /bu.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	bouchonniez /bu.ʃɔ.nje/	bouchonnaient /bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	bouchonnai /bu.ʃɔ.ne/	bouchonnas /bu.ʃɔ.na/	bouchonna /bu.ʃɔ.na/	bouchonnâmes /bu.ʃɔ.nam/	bouchonnâtes /bu.ʃɔ.nat/	bouchonnèrent /bu.ʃɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	bouchonnerai /bu.ʃɔn.ʁe/	bouchonneras /bu.ʃɔn.ʁa/	bouchonnera /bu.ʃɔn.ʁa/	bouchonnerons /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/	bouchonnerez /bu.ʃɔn.ʁe/	bouchonneront /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bouchonnerais /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	bouchonnerais /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	bouchonnerait /bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	bouchonnerions /bu.ʃɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bouchonneriez /bu.ʃɔ.nə.ʁje/	bouchonneraient /bu.ʃɔn.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	bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/	bouchonnes /bu.ʃɔn/	bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/	bouchonnions /bu.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	bouchonniez /bu.ʃɔ.nje/	bouchonnent /bu.ʃɔn/
	imperfect2	bouchonnasse /bu.ʃɔ.nas/	bouchonnasses /bu.ʃɔ.nas/	bouchonnât /bu.ʃɔ.na/	bouchonnassions /bu.ʃɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	bouchonnassiez /bu.ʃɔ.na.sje/	bouchonnassent /bu.ʃɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bouchonne /bu.ʃɔn/	—	bouchonnons /bu.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	bouchonnez /bu.ʃɔ.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).

See also

• embouteillage

Further reading

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