pousser
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Latin pulsare, from pulsus ‘a push’.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
pousser
- to push
- to urge on, encourage
- (of a living thing) To grow
- L'arbre pousse vite. - The tree is growing quickly
- to utter (a cry)
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of pousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | pousser | avoir poussé | |||||
| gerund | en poussant | en ayant poussé | |||||
| present participle | poussant | ||||||
| past participle | poussé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pousse | pousses | pousse | poussons | poussez | poussent |
| imperfect | poussais | poussais | poussait | poussions | poussiez | poussaient | |
| past historic1 | poussai | poussas | poussa | poussâmes | poussâtes | poussèrent | |
| future | pousserai | pousseras | poussera | pousserons | pousserez | pousseront | |
| conditional | pousserais | pousserais | pousserait | pousserions | pousseriez | pousseraient | |
| 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 | pousses | pousse | poussions | poussiez | poussent |
| imperfect1 | poussasse | poussasses | poussât | poussassions | poussassiez | poussassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | pousse | — | poussons | poussez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||