tousser
French
Etymology
From Old French toussir with change of conjugation class, from Latin tussīre, present active infinitive of tussiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tu.se/
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Verb
tousser
- (intransitive) to cough
Conjugation
Conjugation of tousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | tousser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | toussant /tu.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | toussé /tu.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | tousse /tus/ | tousses /tus/ | tousse /tus/ | toussons /tu.sɔ̃/ | toussez /tu.se/ | toussent /tus/ |
imperfect | toussais /tu.sɛ/ | toussais /tu.sɛ/ | toussait /tu.sɛ/ | toussions /tu.sjɔ̃/ | toussiez /tu.sje/ | toussaient /tu.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | toussai /tu.se/ | toussas /tu.sa/ | toussa /tu.sa/ | toussâmes /tu.sam/ | toussâtes /tu.sat/ | toussèrent /tu.sɛʁ/ | |
future | tousserai /tu.sʁe/ | tousseras /tu.sʁa/ | toussera /tu.sʁa/ | tousserons /tu.sʁɔ̃/ | tousserez /tu.sʁe/ | tousseront /tu.sʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | tousserais /tu.sʁɛ/ | tousserais /tu.sʁɛ/ | tousserait /tu.sʁɛ/ | tousserions /tu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tousseriez /tu.sə.ʁje/ | tousseraient /tu.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 | tousse /tus/ | tousses /tus/ | tousse /tus/ | toussions /tu.sjɔ̃/ | toussiez /tu.sje/ | toussent /tus/ |
imperfect2 | toussasse /tu.sas/ | toussasses /tu.sas/ | toussât /tu.sa/ | toussassions /tu.sa.sjɔ̃/ | toussassiez /tu.sa.sje/ | toussassent /tu.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | tousse /tus/ | — | toussons /tu.sɔ̃/ | toussez /tu.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
- toussoter
- toux
Further reading
- “tousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- trousse, troussé