bâcler
French
Etymology
Perhaps from unattested Middle French and Old French bâcler, bacler (“to hold in place, prop a door or window open”). From Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum (“rod, staff used for support”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-. Indirectly attested in Old French desbacler (“to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading”).
The hypothesis of a derivation from Middle Dutch bakkelen (“to freeze artificially, lock in place”), from bakken (“to stick, stick hard, glue together”) has been discredited by the lack of attestation of bakkelen in Middle Dutch and by it having only the meaning "freeze superficially" in Dutch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑ.kle/
Conjugation
Conjugation of bâcler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | bâclant /bɑ.klɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | bâclé /bɑ.kle/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | bâcler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | bâclant /bɑ.klɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâcles /bɑkl/ |
bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâclons /bɑ.klɔ̃/ |
bâclez /bɑ.kle/ |
bâclent /bɑkl/ |
| imperfect | bâclais /bɑ.klɛ/ |
bâclais /bɑ.klɛ/ |
bâclait /bɑ.klɛ/ |
bâclions /bɑ.kli.jɔ̃/ |
bâcliez /bɑ.kli.je/ |
bâclaient /bɑ.klɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bâclai /bɑ.kle/ |
bâclas /bɑ.kla/ |
bâcla /bɑ.kla/ |
bâclâmes /bɑ.klam/ |
bâclâtes /bɑ.klat/ |
bâclèrent /bɑ.klɛʁ/ | |
| future | bâclerai /bɑ.klə.ʁe/ |
bâcleras /bɑ.klə.ʁa/ |
bâclera /bɑ.klə.ʁa/ |
bâclerons /bɑ.klə.ʁɔ̃/ |
bâclerez /bɑ.klə.ʁe/ |
bâcleront /bɑ.klə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bâclerais /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bâclerais /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bâclerait /bɑ.klə.ʁɛ/ |
bâclerions /bɑ.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bâcleriez /bɑ.klə.ʁje/ |
bâcleraient /bɑ.klə.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 | bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâcles /bɑkl/ |
bâcle /bɑkl/ |
bâclions /bɑ.kli.jɔ̃/ |
bâcliez /bɑ.kli.je/ |
bâclent /bɑkl/ |
| imperfect2 | bâclasse /bɑ.klas/ |
bâclasses /bɑ.klas/ |
bâclât /bɑ.kla/ |
bâclassions /bɑ.kla.sjɔ̃/ |
bâclassiez /bɑ.kla.sje/ |
bâclassent /bɑ.klas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bâcle /bɑkl/ |
— | bâclons /bɑ.klɔ̃/ |
bâclez /bɑ.kle/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “bâcler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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