hâter
French
editEtymology
editFrom hâte.
Pronunciation
edit- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a.te/ ~ /ɑ.te/
Audio (Paris): (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: hâtai, hâté, hâtée, hâtées, hâtés, hâtez
Verb
edithâter
- (transitive) to speed up, hasten
- (reflexive) to hurry
- 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Premières méditations poétiques[1]:
- « Aimons donc, aimons donc ! de l’heure fugitive, ¶ Hâtons-nous, jouissons ! ¶ L’homme n’a point de port, le temps n’a point de rive ; ¶ Il coule, et nous passons ! »
- Let's love, then, let's love, then! from fleeing time ¶ Let's hurry, let's enjoy! ¶ Man has no port, time no banks ¶ It flows, and we pass through!"
Conjugation
editConjugation of hâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | hâter | |||||
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compound | avoir past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | hâtant /a.tɑ̃/ or /ɑ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant past participle | ||||||
past participle | hâté /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | hâte /at/ or /ɑt/ |
hâtes /at/ or /ɑt/ |
hâte /at/ or /ɑt/ |
hâtons /a.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tɔ̃/ |
hâtez /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/ |
hâtent /at/ or /ɑt/ |
imperfect | hâtais /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/ |
hâtais /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/ |
hâtait /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/ |
hâtions /a.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
hâtiez /a.tje/ or /ɑ.tje/ |
hâtaient /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | hâtai /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/ |
hâtas /a.ta/ or /ɑ.ta/ |
hâta /a.ta/ or /ɑ.ta/ |
hâtâmes /a.tam/ or /ɑ.tam/ |
hâtâtes /a.tat/ or /ɑ.tat/ |
hâtèrent /a.tɛʁ/ or /ɑ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | hâterai /a.tʁe/ or /ɑ.tʁe/ |
hâteras /a.tʁa/ or /ɑ.tʁa/ |
hâtera /a.tʁa/ or /ɑ.tʁa/ |
hâterons /a.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tʁɔ̃/ |
hâterez /a.tʁe/ or /ɑ.tʁe/ |
hâteront /a.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | hâterais /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/ |
hâterais /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/ |
hâterait /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/ |
hâterions /a.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
hâteriez /a.tə.ʁje/ or /ɑ.tə.ʁje/ |
hâteraient /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | hâte /at/ or /ɑt/ |
hâtes /at/ or /ɑt/ |
hâte /at/ or /ɑt/ |
hâtions /a.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
hâtiez /a.tje/ or /ɑ.tje/ |
hâtent /at/ or /ɑt/ |
imperfect2 | hâtasse /a.tas/ or /ɑ.tas/ |
hâtasses /a.tas/ or /ɑ.tas/ |
hâtât /a.ta/ or /ɑ.ta/ |
hâtassions /a.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
hâtassiez /a.ta.sje/ or /ɑ.ta.sje/ |
hâtassent /a.tas/ or /ɑ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | hâte /at/ or /ɑt/ |
— | hâtons /a.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tɔ̃/ |
hâtez /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/ |
— | |
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). |
Synonyms
editFurther reading
edit- “hâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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