hausser
French
Etymology
From Old French alcier, halcer, haucier from Vulgar Latin *altiāre (see for cognates), from Latin altus (“high”).
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /o.se/
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Verb
hausser
- to raise
- Le gouvernement a haussé le prix du pétrole.
- The government has raised petrol prices.
- to shrug
- Il me disait qu'il ne savait pas, en haussant les épaules.
- He told me he didn't know, shrugging his shoulders.
Conjugation
Conjugation of hausser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | hausser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | haussant /o.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | haussé /o.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | hausse /os/ | hausses /os/ | hausse /os/ | haussons /o.sɔ̃/ | haussez /o.se/ | haussent /os/ |
| imperfect | haussais /o.sɛ/ | haussais /o.sɛ/ | haussait /o.sɛ/ | haussions /o.sjɔ̃/ | haussiez /o.sje/ | haussaient /o.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | haussai /o.se/ | haussas /o.sa/ | haussa /o.sa/ | haussâmes /o.sam/ | haussâtes /o.sat/ | haussèrent /o.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | hausserai /o.sʁe/ | hausseras /o.sʁa/ | haussera /o.sʁa/ | hausserons /o.sʁɔ̃/ | hausserez /o.sʁe/ | hausseront /o.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | hausserais /o.sʁɛ/ | hausserais /o.sʁɛ/ | hausserait /o.sʁɛ/ | hausserions /o.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | hausseriez /o.sə.ʁje/ | hausseraient /o.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 | hausse /os/ | hausses /os/ | hausse /os/ | haussions /o.sjɔ̃/ | haussiez /o.sje/ | haussent /os/ |
| imperfect2 | haussasse /o.sas/ | haussasses /o.sas/ | haussât /o.sa/ | haussassions /o.sa.sjɔ̃/ | haussassiez /o.sa.sje/ | haussassent /o.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | hausse /os/ | — | haussons /o.sɔ̃/ | haussez /o.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- hausser le ton
- hausser les épaules
- hausse
- haussement
- rehausser
Related terms
- haut
Further reading
- “hausser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
hausser
- indefinite plural of hausse.