bachoter

French

Etymology

From bachot +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʃɔ.te/

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Verb

bachoter

1. (colloquial) to cram (revise hard for an exam, especially for a baccalauréat exam)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bachoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bachoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bachotant /ba.ʃɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bachoté /ba.ʃɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bachote /ba.ʃɔt/	bachotes /ba.ʃɔt/	bachote /ba.ʃɔt/	bachotons /ba.ʃɔ.tɔ̃/	bachotez /ba.ʃɔ.te/	bachotent /ba.ʃɔt/
	imperfect	bachotais /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/	bachotais /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/	bachotait /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/	bachotions /ba.ʃɔ.tjɔ̃/	bachotiez /ba.ʃɔ.tje/	bachotaient /ba.ʃɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	bachotai /ba.ʃɔ.te/	bachotas /ba.ʃɔ.ta/	bachota /ba.ʃɔ.ta/	bachotâmes /ba.ʃɔ.tam/	bachotâtes /ba.ʃɔ.tat/	bachotèrent /ba.ʃɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	bachoterai /ba.ʃɔ.tʁe/	bachoteras /ba.ʃɔ.tʁa/	bachotera /ba.ʃɔ.tʁa/	bachoterons /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɔ̃/	bachoterez /ba.ʃɔ.tʁe/	bachoteront /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bachoterais /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/	bachoterais /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/	bachoterait /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/	bachoterions /ba.ʃɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	bachoteriez /ba.ʃɔ.tə.ʁje/	bachoteraient /ba.ʃɔ.tʁɛ/
(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	bachote /ba.ʃɔt/	bachotes /ba.ʃɔt/	bachote /ba.ʃɔt/	bachotions /ba.ʃɔ.tjɔ̃/	bachotiez /ba.ʃɔ.tje/	bachotent /ba.ʃɔt/
	imperfect2	bachotasse /ba.ʃɔ.tas/	bachotasses /ba.ʃɔ.tas/	bachotât /ba.ʃɔ.ta/	bachotassions /ba.ʃɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	bachotassiez /ba.ʃɔ.ta.sje/	bachotassent /ba.ʃɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bachote /ba.ʃɔt/	—	bachotons /ba.ʃɔ.tɔ̃/	bachotez /ba.ʃɔ.te/	—
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

• bachotage m (noun)

Further reading

• “bachoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "bachoter"