glousser
French edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin clociare, from Latin glocire.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
glousser
- to cluck (make the noise of a chicken)
- to gobble (make the noise of a turkey)
- to chortle, to giggle
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:
- Et, à un moment, tu comprends pourquoi ils gloussent tous : il y a des traces de rouge à lèvres sur la braguette de ton jean blanc.
- And at some point, you realize why they are all giggling: there are traces of lipstick on the flies of your white jeans.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of glousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | glousser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gloussant /ɡlu.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gloussé /ɡlu.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | glousse /ɡlus/ |
glousses /ɡlus/ |
glousse /ɡlus/ |
gloussons /ɡlu.sɔ̃/ |
gloussez /ɡlu.se/ |
gloussent /ɡlus/ |
| imperfect | gloussais /ɡlu.sɛ/ |
gloussais /ɡlu.sɛ/ |
gloussait /ɡlu.sɛ/ |
gloussions /ɡlu.sjɔ̃/ |
gloussiez /ɡlu.sje/ |
gloussaient /ɡlu.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gloussai /ɡlu.se/ |
gloussas /ɡlu.sa/ |
gloussa /ɡlu.sa/ |
gloussâmes /ɡlu.sam/ |
gloussâtes /ɡlu.sat/ |
gloussèrent /ɡlu.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | glousserai /ɡlu.sʁe/ |
glousseras /ɡlu.sʁa/ |
gloussera /ɡlu.sʁa/ |
glousserons /ɡlu.sʁɔ̃/ |
glousserez /ɡlu.sʁe/ |
glousseront /ɡlu.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | glousserais /ɡlu.sʁɛ/ |
glousserais /ɡlu.sʁɛ/ |
glousserait /ɡlu.sʁɛ/ |
glousserions /ɡlu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
glousseriez /ɡlu.sə.ʁje/ |
glousseraient /ɡlu.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 | glousse /ɡlus/ |
glousses /ɡlus/ |
glousse /ɡlus/ |
gloussions /ɡlu.sjɔ̃/ |
gloussiez /ɡlu.sje/ |
gloussent /ɡlus/ |
| imperfect2 | gloussasse /ɡlu.sas/ |
gloussasses /ɡlu.sas/ |
gloussât /ɡlu.sa/ |
gloussassions /ɡlu.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
gloussassiez /ɡlu.sa.sje/ |
gloussassent /ɡlu.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | glousse /ɡlus/ |
— | gloussons /ɡlu.sɔ̃/ |
gloussez /ɡlu.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 edit
Further reading edit
- “glousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.