bouder
French, verb/bu.de/
bouder is a French verb meaning “to sulk, pout” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Témoigner par une certaine expression du visage ou par son silence que l’on est mécontent de quelque chose”.
What does bouder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sulk, pout
- 2
to frown upon, to be discontented with
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Témoigner par une certaine expression du visage ou par son silence que l’on est mécontent de quelque chose. 2. Faire comme l’enfant qui, par caprice ou mutinerie, ne veut pas manger. 3. Ne pas jouer, pour le joueur qui n’a pas de numéro à placer. 4. Montrer qu'on est mécontent de quelque chose, de quelqu’un.
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 bouder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- boudant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- boudé participle past
- boude first-person indicative present
- boudes indicative present second-person
- boudons first-person indicative plural
- boudez indicative plural present
- boudent indicative plural present
- boudais first-person imperfect indicative
- boudait imperfect indicative singular
- boudions first-person imperfect indicative
- boudiez imperfect indicative plural
- boudaient imperfect indicative plural
- boudai first-person historic indicative
- boudas historic indicative past
- bouda historic indicative past
- boudâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouder?
- /bu.de/
- \bu.de\
- [bu.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bouder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouder in French?
bouder appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).