bouquiner

French

Etymology

From bouquin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

bouquiner

1. to read constantly (for pleasure)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bouquiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bouquiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bouquinant /bu.ki.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bouquiné /bu.ki.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bouquine /bu.kin/	bouquines /bu.kin/	bouquine /bu.kin/	bouquinons /bu.ki.nɔ̃/	bouquinez /bu.ki.ne/	bouquinent /bu.kin/
	imperfect	bouquinais /bu.ki.nɛ/	bouquinais /bu.ki.nɛ/	bouquinait /bu.ki.nɛ/	bouquinions /bu.ki.njɔ̃/	bouquiniez /bu.ki.nje/	bouquinaient /bu.ki.nɛ/
	past historic2	bouquinai /bu.ki.ne/	bouquinas /bu.ki.na/	bouquina /bu.ki.na/	bouquinâmes /bu.ki.nam/	bouquinâtes /bu.ki.nat/	bouquinèrent /bu.ki.nɛʁ/
	future	bouquinerai /bu.kin.ʁe/	bouquineras /bu.kin.ʁa/	bouquinera /bu.kin.ʁa/	bouquinerons /bu.kin.ʁɔ̃/	bouquinerez /bu.kin.ʁe/	bouquineront /bu.kin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bouquinerais /bu.kin.ʁɛ/	bouquinerais /bu.kin.ʁɛ/	bouquinerait /bu.kin.ʁɛ/	bouquinerions /bu.ki.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bouquineriez /bu.ki.nə.ʁje/	bouquineraient /bu.kin.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	bouquine /bu.kin/	bouquines /bu.kin/	bouquine /bu.kin/	bouquinions /bu.ki.njɔ̃/	bouquiniez /bu.ki.nje/	bouquinent /bu.kin/
	imperfect2	bouquinasse /bu.ki.nas/	bouquinasses /bu.ki.nas/	bouquinât /bu.ki.na/	bouquinassions /bu.ki.na.sjɔ̃/	bouquinassiez /bu.ki.na.sje/	bouquinassent /bu.ki.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bouquine /bu.kin/	—	bouquinons /bu.ki.nɔ̃/	bouquinez /bu.ki.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).

Descendants

• Brazilian Portuguese: buquinar

Further reading

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