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  • bucher ((1990 reform spelling))

From bûche +‎ -er.

bûcher m (plural bûchers)

  1. woodshed (enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood)
  2. pyre (funeral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned)
  3. stake (pile of wood on which a person condemned to death is burned)
  4. (in the plural) the flames of Hell

From bûche +‎ -er.

bûcher

  1. to hew
  2. (informal) to slug away, to hit the books
infinitive simple bûcher
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple bûchant
/by.ʃɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle bûché
/by.ʃe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present bûche
/byʃ/ 		bûches
/byʃ/ 		bûche
/byʃ/ 		bûchons
/by.ʃɔ̃/ 		bûchez
/by.ʃe/ 		bûchent
/byʃ/
imperfect bûchais
/by.ʃɛ/ 		bûchais
/by.ʃɛ/ 		bûchait
/by.ʃɛ/ 		bûchions
/by.ʃjɔ̃/ 		bûchiez
/by.ʃje/ 		bûchaient
/by.ʃɛ/
past historic2 bûchai
/by.ʃe/ 		bûchas
/by.ʃa/ 		bûcha
/by.ʃa/ 		bûchâmes
/by.ʃam/ 		bûchâtes
/by.ʃat/ 		bûchèrent
/by.ʃɛʁ/
future bûcherai
/byʃ.ʁe/ 		bûcheras
/byʃ.ʁa/ 		bûchera
/byʃ.ʁa/ 		bûcherons
/byʃ.ʁɔ̃/ 		bûcherez
/byʃ.ʁe/ 		bûcheront
/byʃ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional bûcherais
/byʃ.ʁɛ/ 		bûcherais
/byʃ.ʁɛ/ 		bûcherait
/byʃ.ʁɛ/ 		bûcherions
/by.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		bûcheriez
/by.ʃə.ʁje/ 		bûcheraient
/byʃ.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 bûche
/byʃ/ 		bûches
/byʃ/ 		bûche
/byʃ/ 		bûchions
/by.ʃjɔ̃/ 		bûchiez
/by.ʃje/ 		bûchent
/byʃ/
imperfect2 bûchasse
/by.ʃas/ 		bûchasses
/by.ʃas/ 		bûchât
/by.ʃa/ 		bûchassions
/by.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ 		bûchassiez
/by.ʃa.sje/ 		bûchassent
/by.ʃas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — bûche
/byʃ/ 		— bûchons
/by.ʃɔ̃/ 		bûchez
/by.ʃe/ 		—
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).