halluciner

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hālūcinārī.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.ly.si.ne/

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Verb

halluciner

1. to hallucinate
2. (informal) to be flabbergasted

   Synonym: tomber des nues

   • 1987, Alain Chamfort, Pierre Grillet, “À caus' des garçons”:

     J'hallucine, faut qu'on te vaccine / Tout ça pour un mec de frime / Tu déprimes, j'te le laisse si c'est ton style

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Conjugation

Conjugation of halluciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	halluciner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hallucinant /a.ly.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		halluciné /a.ly.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hallucine /a.ly.sin/	hallucines /a.ly.sin/	hallucine /a.ly.sin/	hallucinons /a.ly.si.nɔ̃/	hallucinez /a.ly.si.ne/	hallucinent /a.ly.sin/
	imperfect	hallucinais /a.ly.si.nɛ/	hallucinais /a.ly.si.nɛ/	hallucinait /a.ly.si.nɛ/	hallucinions /a.ly.si.njɔ̃/	halluciniez /a.ly.si.nje/	hallucinaient /a.ly.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	hallucinai /a.ly.si.ne/	hallucinas /a.ly.si.na/	hallucina /a.ly.si.na/	hallucinâmes /a.ly.si.nam/	hallucinâtes /a.ly.si.nat/	hallucinèrent /a.ly.si.nɛʁ/
	future	hallucinerai /a.ly.sin.ʁe/	hallucineras /a.ly.sin.ʁa/	hallucinera /a.ly.sin.ʁa/	hallucinerons /a.ly.sin.ʁɔ̃/	hallucinerez /a.ly.sin.ʁe/	hallucineront /a.ly.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hallucinerais /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/	hallucinerais /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/	hallucinerait /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/	hallucinerions /a.ly.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	hallucineriez /a.ly.si.nə.ʁje/	hallucineraient /a.ly.sin.ʁɛ/
(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	hallucine /a.ly.sin/	hallucines /a.ly.sin/	hallucine /a.ly.sin/	hallucinions /a.ly.si.njɔ̃/	halluciniez /a.ly.si.nje/	hallucinent /a.ly.sin/
	imperfect2	hallucinasse /a.ly.si.nas/	hallucinasses /a.ly.si.nas/	hallucinât /a.ly.si.na/	hallucinassions /a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃/	hallucinassiez /a.ly.si.na.sje/	hallucinassent /a.ly.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hallucine /a.ly.sin/	—	hallucinons /a.ly.si.nɔ̃/	hallucinez /a.ly.si.ne/	—
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

• hallucinant
• hallucination
• hallucinogène

Further reading

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