bassiner

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.si.ne/

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Verb

bassiner

1. (transitive) to bathe with a warm liquid
2. (transitive) to drizzle
3. (transitive) to bore
4. (transitive) to pester or annoy
5. (transitive) to warm a bed with a bassinoire

Conjugation

Conjugation of bassiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bassiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bassinant /ba.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bassiné /ba.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bassine /ba.sin/	bassines /ba.sin/	bassine /ba.sin/	bassinons /ba.si.nɔ̃/	bassinez /ba.si.ne/	bassinent /ba.sin/
	imperfect	bassinais /ba.si.nɛ/	bassinais /ba.si.nɛ/	bassinait /ba.si.nɛ/	bassinions /ba.si.njɔ̃/	bassiniez /ba.si.nje/	bassinaient /ba.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	bassinai /ba.si.ne/	bassinas /ba.si.na/	bassina /ba.si.na/	bassinâmes /ba.si.nam/	bassinâtes /ba.si.nat/	bassinèrent /ba.si.nɛʁ/
	future	bassinerai /ba.sin.ʁe/	bassineras /ba.sin.ʁa/	bassinera /ba.sin.ʁa/	bassinerons /ba.sin.ʁɔ̃/	bassinerez /ba.sin.ʁe/	bassineront /ba.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bassinerais /ba.sin.ʁɛ/	bassinerais /ba.sin.ʁɛ/	bassinerait /ba.sin.ʁɛ/	bassinerions /ba.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bassineriez /ba.si.nə.ʁje/	bassineraient /ba.sin.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	bassine /ba.sin/	bassines /ba.sin/	bassine /ba.sin/	bassinions /ba.si.njɔ̃/	bassiniez /ba.si.nje/	bassinent /ba.sin/
	imperfect2	bassinasse /ba.si.nas/	bassinasses /ba.si.nas/	bassinât /ba.si.na/	bassinassions /ba.si.na.sjɔ̃/	bassinassiez /ba.si.na.sje/	bassinassent /ba.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bassine /ba.sin/	—	bassinons /ba.si.nɔ̃/	bassinez /ba.si.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).

Further reading

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