pousser
French
Etymology
From Old French, inherited from Latin pulsō, pulsāre, from pulsus (“a push”) (and frequentative of pellō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu.se/
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Verb
pousser
- (transitive) to push
- (transitive, followed by the preposition à) to urge on, encourage
- pousser quelqu'un à faire quelque chose
- pousser à
- (intransitive, of a living thing) to grow
- L'arbre pousse vite.
- The tree is growing quickly.
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- (intransitive, figuratively) to spring up, to sprout
- Les Starbucks poussent comme des champignons ici.
- The Starbucks are springing up like mushrooms here.
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- to utter (a cry)
- (reflexive) to move aside
Conjugation
Conjugation of pousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | pousser | avoir poussé | |||||
| gerund | en poussant | en ayant poussé | |||||
| present participle | poussant /pu.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | poussé /pu.se/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pousse /pus/ |
pousses /pus/ |
pousse /pus/ |
poussons /pu.sɔ̃/ |
poussez /pu.se/ |
poussent /pus/ |
| imperfect | poussais /pu.sɛ/ |
poussais /pu.sɛ/ |
poussait /pu.sɛ/ |
poussions /pu.sjɔ̃/ |
poussiez /pu.sje/ |
poussaient /pu.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | poussai /pu.se/ |
poussas /pu.sa/ |
poussa /pu.sa/ |
poussâmes /pu.sam/ |
poussâtes /pu.sat/ |
poussèrent /pu.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | pousserai /pu.sʁe/ |
pousseras /pu.sʁa/ |
poussera /pu.sʁa/ |
pousserons /pu.sʁɔ̃/ |
pousserez /pu.sʁe/ |
pousseront /pu.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pousserais /pu.sʁɛ/ |
pousserais /pu.sʁɛ/ |
pousserait /pu.sʁɛ/ |
pousserions /pu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pousseriez /pu.sə.ʁje/ |
pousseraient /pu.sʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pousse /pus/ |
pousses /pus/ |
pousse /pus/ |
poussions /pu.sjɔ̃/ |
poussiez /pu.sje/ |
poussent /pus/ |
| imperfect1 | poussasse /pu.sas/ |
poussasses /pu.sas/ |
poussât /pu.sa/ |
poussassions /pu.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
poussassiez /pu.sa.sje/ |
poussassent /pu.sas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | pousse /pus/ |
— | poussons /pu.sɔ̃/ |
poussez /pu.se/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “pousser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin pulsō, pulsāre (“push, strike, beat, batter, hammer”), frequentative of pellō, pellere (“push, drive, hurl, impel, propel”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
pousser
Antonyms
- tither (“to pull”)
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