bûcher
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noun
- woodshedenclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood
- pyrefuneral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned
- stakepile of wood on which a person condemned to death is burned
- the flames of Hell
verb
- to hew
- to slug away, to hit the books
Forms
Present
| I | bûche |
|---|---|
| you | bûches |
| he, she, it | bûche |
| we | bûchons |
| you (plural) | bûchez |
| they | bûchent |
Imperfect
| I | bûchais |
|---|---|
| you | bûchais |
| he, she, it | bûchait |
| we | bûchions |
| you (plural) | bûchiez |
| they | bûchaient |
Past historic
| I | bûchai |
|---|---|
| you | bûchas |
| he, she, it | bûcha |
| we | bûchâmes |
| you (plural) | bûchâtes |
| they | bûchèrent |
Future
| I | bûcherai |
|---|---|
| you | bûcheras |
| he, she, it | bûchera |
| we | bûcherons |
| you (plural) | bûcherez |
| they | bûcheront |
Conditional
| I | bûcherais |
|---|---|
| you | bûcherais |
| he, she, it | bûcherait |
| we | bûcherions |
| you (plural) | bûcheriez |
| they | bûcheraient |
Subjunctive
| I | bûche |
|---|---|
| you | bûches |
| he, she, it | bûche |
| we | bûchions |
| you (plural) | bûchiez |
| they | bûchent |
Imperfect subjunctive
| I | bûchasse |
|---|---|
| you | bûchasses |
| he, she, it | bûchât |
| we | bûchassions |
| you (plural) | bûchassiez |
| they | bûchassent |
Imperative
| you | bûche |
|---|---|
| we | bûchons |
| you (plural) | bûchez |
Other forms
| infinitive | bûcher |
|---|---|
| past participle | bûché |
| gerund | bûchant |
More forms are in the app.
Used in the library
- Je n'avais que seize ans, mais je bûchais avec les autres pour clairer la ligne, toujours à vingt-cinq milles en avant du fer, et je suis resté quatorze mois sans voir une maison.I was only sixteen years old, but I was drinking with the others to clear the line, still twenty-five miles ahead of the iron, and I stayed fourteen months without seeing a house.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Je l'ai bien vu lorsqu'il était sur le bûcher.I saw him when he was on the stake.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
- Quatre cents personnes de tout âge et de tout sexe périrent ainsi sur la place, ou sur le bûcher dans les cantons où on les emmena.Four hundred people of all ages and gender perished on the square, or on the stake in the cantons where they were taken.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
- – Que mon fils me dise d'abord pourquoi on l'avait attaché au bûcher quand je suis entré dans la bourgade?"Let my son tell me first why he was tied to the stake when I entered the village?"B2Le Chevalier de Mornac