bousiller

French

Alternative forms

• bouziller

Etymology

bouse +‎ -iller

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.zi.je/

Verb

bousiller

1. (colloquial) to wreck, smash up
2. (colloquial) to botch, screw up

Conjugation

Conjugation of bousiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bousiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bousillant /bu.zi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bousillé /bu.zi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bousille /bu.zij/	bousilles /bu.zij/	bousille /bu.zij/	bousillons /bu.zi.jɔ̃/	bousillez /bu.zi.je/	bousillent /bu.zij/
	imperfect	bousillais /bu.zi.jɛ/	bousillais /bu.zi.jɛ/	bousillait /bu.zi.jɛ/	bousillions /bu.zij.jɔ̃/	bousilliez /bu.zij.je/	bousillaient /bu.zi.jɛ/
	past historic2	bousillai /bu.zi.je/	bousillas /bu.zi.ja/	bousilla /bu.zi.ja/	bousillâmes /bu.zi.jam/	bousillâtes /bu.zi.jat/	bousillèrent /bu.zi.jɛʁ/
	future	bousillerai /bu.zij.ʁe/	bousilleras /bu.zij.ʁa/	bousillera /bu.zij.ʁa/	bousillerons /bu.zij.ʁɔ̃/	bousillerez /bu.zij.ʁe/	bousilleront /bu.zij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bousillerais /bu.zij.ʁɛ/	bousillerais /bu.zij.ʁɛ/	bousillerait /bu.zij.ʁɛ/	bousillerions /bu.zi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	bousilleriez /bu.zi.jə.ʁje/	bousilleraient /bu.zij.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	bousille /bu.zij/	bousilles /bu.zij/	bousille /bu.zij/	bousillions /bu.zij.jɔ̃/	bousilliez /bu.zij.je/	bousillent /bu.zij/
	imperfect2	bousillasse /bu.zi.jas/	bousillasses /bu.zi.jas/	bousillât /bu.zi.ja/	bousillassions /bu.zi.ja.sjɔ̃/	bousillassiez /bu.zi.ja.sje/	bousillassent /bu.zi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bousille /bu.zij/	—	bousillons /bu.zi.jɔ̃/	bousillez /bu.zi.je/	—
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

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