bastonner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.tɔ.ne/

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Verb

bastonner

1. to cane; to beat with a stick
2. to pummel, to batter
   • 1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme‎^[1], page 89:

     Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]

     The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of bastonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bastonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bastonnant /bas.tɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bastonné /bas.tɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bastonne /bas.tɔn/	bastonnes /bas.tɔn/	bastonne /bas.tɔn/	bastonnons /bas.tɔ.nɔ̃/	bastonnez /bas.tɔ.ne/	bastonnent /bas.tɔn/
	imperfect	bastonnais /bas.tɔ.nɛ/	bastonnais /bas.tɔ.nɛ/	bastonnait /bas.tɔ.nɛ/	bastonnions /bas.tɔ.njɔ̃/	bastonniez /bas.tɔ.nje/	bastonnaient /bas.tɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	bastonnai /bas.tɔ.ne/	bastonnas /bas.tɔ.na/	bastonna /bas.tɔ.na/	bastonnâmes /bas.tɔ.nam/	bastonnâtes /bas.tɔ.nat/	bastonnèrent /bas.tɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	bastonnerai /bas.tɔn.ʁe/	bastonneras /bas.tɔn.ʁa/	bastonnera /bas.tɔn.ʁa/	bastonnerons /bas.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/	bastonnerez /bas.tɔn.ʁe/	bastonneront /bas.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bastonnerais /bas.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bastonnerais /bas.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bastonnerait /bas.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bastonnerions /bas.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bastonneriez /bas.tɔ.nə.ʁje/	bastonneraient /bas.tɔn.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	bastonne /bas.tɔn/	bastonnes /bas.tɔn/	bastonne /bas.tɔn/	bastonnions /bas.tɔ.njɔ̃/	bastonniez /bas.tɔ.nje/	bastonnent /bas.tɔn/
	imperfect2	bastonnasse /bas.tɔ.nas/	bastonnasses /bas.tɔ.nas/	bastonnât /bas.tɔ.na/	bastonnassions /bas.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	bastonnassiez /bas.tɔ.na.sje/	bastonnassent /bas.tɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bastonne /bas.tɔn/	—	bastonnons /bas.tɔ.nɔ̃/	bastonnez /bas.tɔ.ne/	—
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).

Related terms

• bastonnade

Further reading

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