bourgeonner
French, verb/buʁ.ʒɔ.ne/
bourgeonner is a French verb meaning “to bud (of plant, to sprout buds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser des bourgeons”.
What does bourgeonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bud (of plant, to sprout buds)
- 2
to granulate; to have pimples, spots
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser des bourgeons. 2. Se couvrir de boutons, au nez, au visage. 3. En être à ses débuts, commencer, vers un plus grand développement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bourgeonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bourgeonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bourgeonné participle past
- bourgeonne first-person indicative present
- bourgeonnes indicative present second-person
- bourgeonnons first-person indicative plural
- bourgeonnez indicative plural present
- bourgeonnent indicative plural present
- bourgeonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- bourgeonnait imperfect indicative singular
- bourgeonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- bourgeonniez imperfect indicative plural
- bourgeonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- bourgeonnai first-person historic indicative
- bourgeonnas historic indicative past
- bourgeonna historic indicative past
- bourgeonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bourgeonner?
- /buʁ.ʒɔ.ne/
- \buʁ.ʒɔ.ne\
- [buʁ.ʒɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bourgeonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bourgeonner in French?
bourgeonner appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).