bumsen
German
editAlternative forms
edit- b*msen (censored)
Etymology
editFrom the Onomatopoeic interjection bums, bum + -sen (iterative suffix). The sexual sense rose to prominence in the mid of the twentieth century, when before rumsen was used the same way, now not known any more.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editbumsen (weak, third-person singular present bumst, past tense bumste, past participle gebumst, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to thud
- (colloquial, somewhat dated) to have sex
- 1974, Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum [The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum], Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, →ISBN, page 185:
- Er sagte »Na, Blümchen, was machen wir zwei denn jetzt?« Ich sagte kein Wort, wich ins Wohnzimmer zurück, und er kam mir nach und sagte: »Was guckst du mich denn so entgeistert an, mein Blümelein—ich schlage vor, daß wir jetzt erst einmal bumsen.«
- He said, "Well, Blümchen, what are the two of us doing now?" I didn't say a word, stepped back into the living room, and he came after me and said: "What are you looking at me so disconcerted, my Blümelein - I suggest that we're going to boink now. "
Conjugation
editinfinitive | bumsen | ||||
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present participle | bumsend | ||||
past participle | gebumst | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich bumse | wir bumsen | i | ich bumse | wir bumsen |
du bumst | ihr bumst | du bumsest | ihr bumset | ||
er bumst | sie bumsen | er bumse | sie bumsen | ||
preterite | ich bumste | wir bumsten | ii | ich bumste1 | wir bumsten1 |
du bumstest | ihr bumstet | du bumstest1 | ihr bumstet1 | ||
er bumste | sie bumsten | er bumste1 | sie bumsten1 | ||
imperative | bums (du) bumse (du) |
bumst (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.