boursicoter

French

Etymology

From boursicot. The first sense dates at least to the sixteenth century; the second was influenced by the subsequent development of bourse to mean "stock exchange".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʁ.si.kɔ.te/

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Verb

boursicoter

1. (intransitive) to set money aside
2. (intransitive) to dabble on the stock market

Conjugation

Conjugation of boursicoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	boursicoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	boursicotant /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		boursicoté /buʁ.si.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	boursicote /buʁ.si.kɔt/	boursicotes /buʁ.si.kɔt/	boursicote /buʁ.si.kɔt/	boursicotons /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɔ̃/	boursicotez /buʁ.si.kɔ.te/	boursicotent /buʁ.si.kɔt/
	imperfect	boursicotais /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɛ/	boursicotais /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɛ/	boursicotait /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɛ/	boursicotions /buʁ.si.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	boursicotiez /buʁ.si.kɔ.tje/	boursicotaient /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	boursicotai /buʁ.si.kɔ.te/	boursicotas /buʁ.si.kɔ.ta/	boursicota /buʁ.si.kɔ.ta/	boursicotâmes /buʁ.si.kɔ.tam/	boursicotâtes /buʁ.si.kɔ.tat/	boursicotèrent /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	boursicoterai /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁe/	boursicoteras /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁa/	boursicotera /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁa/	boursicoterons /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	boursicoterez /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁe/	boursicoteront /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	boursicoterais /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁɛ/	boursicoterais /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁɛ/	boursicoterait /buʁ.si.kɔ.tʁɛ/	boursicoterions /buʁ.si.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	boursicoteriez /buʁ.si.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	boursicoteraient /buʁ.si.kɔ.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	boursicote /buʁ.si.kɔt/	boursicotes /buʁ.si.kɔt/	boursicote /buʁ.si.kɔt/	boursicotions /buʁ.si.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	boursicotiez /buʁ.si.kɔ.tje/	boursicotent /buʁ.si.kɔt/
	imperfect2	boursicotasse /buʁ.si.kɔ.tas/	boursicotasses /buʁ.si.kɔ.tas/	boursicotât /buʁ.si.kɔ.ta/	boursicotassions /buʁ.si.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	boursicotassiez /buʁ.si.kɔ.ta.sje/	boursicotassent /buʁ.si.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	boursicote /buʁ.si.kɔt/	—	boursicotons /buʁ.si.kɔ.tɔ̃/	boursicotez /buʁ.si.kɔ.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).

Further reading

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