boulonner

French

Etymology

From boulon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.lɔ.ne/

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Verb

boulonner

1. (transitive) to bolt (on)
2. (intransitive) to work hard

Conjugation

Conjugation of boulonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	boulonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	boulonnant /bu.lɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		boulonné /bu.lɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	boulonne /bu.lɔn/	boulonnes /bu.lɔn/	boulonne /bu.lɔn/	boulonnons /bu.lɔ.nɔ̃/	boulonnez /bu.lɔ.ne/	boulonnent /bu.lɔn/
	imperfect	boulonnais /bu.lɔ.nɛ/	boulonnais /bu.lɔ.nɛ/	boulonnait /bu.lɔ.nɛ/	boulonnions /bu.lɔ.njɔ̃/	boulonniez /bu.lɔ.nje/	boulonnaient /bu.lɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	boulonnai /bu.lɔ.ne/	boulonnas /bu.lɔ.na/	boulonna /bu.lɔ.na/	boulonnâmes /bu.lɔ.nam/	boulonnâtes /bu.lɔ.nat/	boulonnèrent /bu.lɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	boulonnerai /bu.lɔn.ʁe/	boulonneras /bu.lɔn.ʁa/	boulonnera /bu.lɔn.ʁa/	boulonnerons /bu.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/	boulonnerez /bu.lɔn.ʁe/	boulonneront /bu.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	boulonnerais /bu.lɔn.ʁɛ/	boulonnerais /bu.lɔn.ʁɛ/	boulonnerait /bu.lɔn.ʁɛ/	boulonnerions /bu.lɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	boulonneriez /bu.lɔ.nə.ʁje/	boulonneraient /bu.lɔn.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	boulonne /bu.lɔn/	boulonnes /bu.lɔn/	boulonne /bu.lɔn/	boulonnions /bu.lɔ.njɔ̃/	boulonniez /bu.lɔ.nje/	boulonnent /bu.lɔn/
	imperfect2	boulonnasse /bu.lɔ.nas/	boulonnasses /bu.lɔ.nas/	boulonnât /bu.lɔ.na/	boulonnassions /bu.lɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	boulonnassiez /bu.lɔ.na.sje/	boulonnassent /bu.lɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	boulonne /bu.lɔn/	—	boulonnons /bu.lɔ.nɔ̃/	boulonnez /bu.lɔ.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

• Romanian: bulona

Further reading

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