bousiller

French

Alternative forms

• bouziller

Etymology

From bouse +‎ -iller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.zi.je/

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Verb

bousiller

1. (colloquial) to wreck, smash up
   • 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, Le Seuil:

     Comme mon père, qui, lorsqu’il était saoul, ressentait toujours ce besoin de prendre le volant. […] Elle lui a dit qu’il avait trop bu, trop pris de drogue pour ce soir, ce serait déraisonnable de sa part T’as quand même pas envie de te bousiller et de bousiller tes gosses avec.

     Like my father, who, when he was drunk, always felt this need to get behind the wheel. […] She told him that he had had too much to drink and taken too many drugs that night, and that it would be foolish of him: You don't want to hurt yourself and your kids, do you?

2. (colloquial) to botch, screw up
3. (colloquial) to kill
4. (masonry) to do work in bousillage

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).

Derived terms

• bousillage
• bousilleur
• bousilleux

Further reading

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