tousser
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French toussir with change of conjugation class, from Latin tussīre.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Further reading
- “tousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.