harasser
English
Etymology
From harass + -er.
Noun
harasser (plural harassers)
- One who harasses.
Translations
one who harasses
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Anagrams
- harrases
French
Etymology
From harer (“to set a dog on”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hara (“here, hither”), from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r (“here, hither”).
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a.ʁa.se/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: aracée, harassai, harassé, harassée, harassées, harassés, harassez
Verb
harasser
- to exhaust, to wear out
Conjugation
Conjugation of harasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | harasser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | harassant /a.ʁa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | harassé /a.ʁa.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | harasse /a.ʁas/ | harasses /a.ʁas/ | harasse /a.ʁas/ | harassons /a.ʁa.sɔ̃/ | harassez /a.ʁa.se/ | harassent /a.ʁas/ |
| imperfect | harassais /a.ʁa.sɛ/ | harassais /a.ʁa.sɛ/ | harassait /a.ʁa.sɛ/ | harassions /a.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | harassiez /a.ʁa.sje/ | harassaient /a.ʁa.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | harassai /a.ʁa.se/ | harassas /a.ʁa.sa/ | harassa /a.ʁa.sa/ | harassâmes /a.ʁa.sam/ | harassâtes /a.ʁa.sat/ | harassèrent /a.ʁa.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | harasserai /a.ʁa.sʁe/ | harasseras /a.ʁa.sʁa/ | harassera /a.ʁa.sʁa/ | harasserons /a.ʁa.sʁɔ̃/ | harasserez /a.ʁa.sʁe/ | harasseront /a.ʁa.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | harasserais /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/ | harasserais /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/ | harasserait /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/ | harasserions /a.ʁa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | harasseriez /a.ʁa.sə.ʁje/ | harasseraient /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | harasse /a.ʁas/ | harasses /a.ʁas/ | harasse /a.ʁas/ | harassions /a.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | harassiez /a.ʁa.sje/ | harassent /a.ʁas/ |
| imperfect2 | harassasse /a.ʁa.sas/ | harassasses /a.ʁa.sas/ | harassât /a.ʁa.sa/ | harassassions /a.ʁa.sa.sjɔ̃/ | harassassiez /a.ʁa.sa.sje/ | harassassent /a.ʁa.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | harasse /a.ʁas/ | — | harassons /a.ʁa.sɔ̃/ | harassez /a.ʁa.se/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- harassement
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “harass”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “harasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.