halluciner
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hālūcinor.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.ly.si.ne/
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Verb
halluciner
- to hallucinate
- (informal) to be flabbergasted
- Synonym: tomber des nues
- 1987, Alain Chamfort & Pierre Grillet (lyrics and music), “À caus' des garçons”:
- J'hallucine, faut qu'on te vaccine / Tout ça pour un mec de frime / Tu déprimes, j'te le laisse si c'est ton style
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Conjugation
Conjugation of halluciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | halluciner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | hallucinant /a.ly.si.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | halluciné /a.ly.si.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | hallucine /a.ly.sin/ | hallucines /a.ly.sin/ | hallucine /a.ly.sin/ | hallucinons /a.ly.si.nɔ̃/ | hallucinez /a.ly.si.ne/ | hallucinent /a.ly.sin/ |
| imperfect | hallucinais /a.ly.si.nɛ/ | hallucinais /a.ly.si.nɛ/ | hallucinait /a.ly.si.nɛ/ | hallucinions /a.ly.si.njɔ̃/ | halluciniez /a.ly.si.nje/ | hallucinaient /a.ly.si.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | hallucinai /a.ly.si.ne/ | hallucinas /a.ly.si.na/ | hallucina /a.ly.si.na/ | hallucinâmes /a.ly.si.nam/ | hallucinâtes /a.ly.si.nat/ | hallucinèrent /a.ly.si.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | hallucinerai /a.ly.sin.ʁe/ | hallucineras /a.ly.sin.ʁa/ | hallucinera /a.ly.sin.ʁa/ | hallucinerons /a.ly.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | hallucinerez /a.ly.sin.ʁe/ | hallucineront /a.ly.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | hallucinerais /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/ | hallucinerais /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/ | hallucinerait /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/ | hallucinerions /a.ly.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | hallucineriez /a.ly.si.nə.ʁje/ | hallucineraient /a.ly.sin.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 | hallucine /a.ly.sin/ | hallucines /a.ly.sin/ | hallucine /a.ly.sin/ | hallucinions /a.ly.si.njɔ̃/ | halluciniez /a.ly.si.nje/ | hallucinent /a.ly.sin/ |
| imperfect2 | hallucinasse /a.ly.si.nas/ | hallucinasses /a.ly.si.nas/ | hallucinât /a.ly.si.na/ | hallucinassions /a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃/ | hallucinassiez /a.ly.si.na.sje/ | hallucinassent /a.ly.si.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | hallucine /a.ly.sin/ | — | hallucinons /a.ly.si.nɔ̃/ | hallucinez /a.ly.si.ne/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- hallucinant
- hallucination
- hallucinogène
Further reading
- “halluciner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.