bumsen
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German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- b*msen (censored)
Etymology
[edit]From the Onomatopoeic interjection bums, bum + -sen (iterative suffix). The sexual sense rose to prominence in the mid of the twentieth century, when before rumsen was used the same way, now not known any more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bumsen (weak, third-person singular present bumst, past tense bumste, past participle gebumst, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to thud
- (colloquial, somewhat dated) to have sex
- 1974, Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum [The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum], Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, →ISBN, page 185:
- Er sagte »Na, Blümchen, was machen wir zwei denn jetzt?« Ich sagte kein Wort, wich ins Wohnzimmer zurück, und er kam mir nach und sagte: »Was guckst du mich denn so entgeistert an, mein Blümelein—ich schlage vor, daß wir jetzt erst einmal bumsen.«
- He said, "Well, Blümchen, what are the two of us doing now?" I didn't say a word, stepped back into the living room, and he came after me and said: "What are you looking at me so disconcerted, my Blümelein - I suggest that we're going to boink now. "
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | bumsen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | bumsend | ||||
| past participle | gebumst | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich bumse | wir bumsen | i | ich bumse | wir bumsen |
| du bumst | ihr bumst | du bumsest | ihr bumset | ||
| er bumst | sie bumsen | er bumse | sie bumsen | ||
| preterite | ich bumste | wir bumsten | ii | ich bumste1 | wir bumsten1 |
| du bumstest | ihr bumstet | du bumstest1 | ihr bumstet1 | ||
| er bumste | sie bumsten | er bumste1 | sie bumsten1 | ||
| imperative | bums (du) bumse (du) |
bumst (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.