blackbouler

French

Etymology

Partial calque of English blackball. See boule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blak.bu.le/

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Verb

blackbouler

1. (transitive) to blackball

Conjugation

Conjugation of blackbouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	blackbouler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blackboulant /blak.bu.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		blackboulé /blak.bu.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blackboule /blak.bul/	blackboules /blak.bul/	blackboule /blak.bul/	blackboulons /blak.bu.lɔ̃/	blackboulez /blak.bu.le/	blackboulent /blak.bul/
	imperfect	blackboulais /blak.bu.lɛ/	blackboulais /blak.bu.lɛ/	blackboulait /blak.bu.lɛ/	blackboulions /blak.bu.ljɔ̃/	blackbouliez /blak.bu.lje/	blackboulaient /blak.bu.lɛ/
	past historic2	blackboulai /blak.bu.le/	blackboulas /blak.bu.la/	blackboula /blak.bu.la/	blackboulâmes /blak.bu.lam/	blackboulâtes /blak.bu.lat/	blackboulèrent /blak.bu.lɛʁ/
	future	blackboulerai /blak.bul.ʁe/	blackbouleras /blak.bul.ʁa/	blackboulera /blak.bul.ʁa/	blackboulerons /blak.bul.ʁɔ̃/	blackboulerez /blak.bul.ʁe/	blackbouleront /blak.bul.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blackboulerais /blak.bul.ʁɛ/	blackboulerais /blak.bul.ʁɛ/	blackboulerait /blak.bul.ʁɛ/	blackboulerions /blak.bu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	blackbouleriez /blak.bu.lə.ʁje/	blackbouleraient /blak.bul.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	blackboule /blak.bul/	blackboules /blak.bul/	blackboule /blak.bul/	blackboulions /blak.bu.ljɔ̃/	blackbouliez /blak.bu.lje/	blackboulent /blak.bul/
	imperfect2	blackboulasse /blak.bu.las/	blackboulasses /blak.bu.las/	blackboulât /blak.bu.la/	blackboulassions /blak.bu.la.sjɔ̃/	blackboulassiez /blak.bu.la.sje/	blackboulassent /blak.bu.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blackboule /blak.bul/	—	blackboulons /blak.bu.lɔ̃/	blackboulez /blak.bu.le/	—
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

• blackboulage

Further reading

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