housser

French

Etymology

From housse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

housser

1. (rare) to cover with a dustsheet
2. (rare) to dust (with a duster)

Conjugation

Conjugation of housser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	housser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	houssant /u.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		houssé /u.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	housse /us/	housses /us/	housse /us/	houssons /u.sɔ̃/	houssez /u.se/	houssent /us/
	imperfect	houssais /u.sɛ/	houssais /u.sɛ/	houssait /u.sɛ/	houssions /u.sjɔ̃/	houssiez /u.sje/	houssaient /u.sɛ/
	past historic2	houssai /u.se/	houssas /u.sa/	houssa /u.sa/	houssâmes /u.sam/	houssâtes /u.sat/	houssèrent /u.sɛʁ/
	future	housserai /u.sʁe/	housseras /u.sʁa/	houssera /u.sʁa/	housserons /u.sʁɔ̃/	housserez /u.sʁe/	housseront /u.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	housserais /u.sʁɛ/	housserais /u.sʁɛ/	housserait /u.sʁɛ/	housserions /u.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	housseriez /u.sə.ʁje/	housseraient /u.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	housse /us/	housses /us/	housse /us/	houssions /u.sjɔ̃/	houssiez /u.sje/	houssent /us/
	imperfect2	houssasse /u.sas/	houssasses /u.sas/	houssât /u.sa/	houssassions /u.sa.sjɔ̃/	houssassiez /u.sa.sje/	houssassent /u.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	housse /us/	—	houssons /u.sɔ̃/	houssez /u.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• houssoir

Further reading

• “housser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.