souhaiter

French

Etymology

From Old French sohaidier, from Gallo-Roman Latin *subtus-haitare "promise with little commitment", a hybrid of Latin subtus "under" + Frankish *haitan (“to order, promise”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaną, compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan, “to address, call”), Old High German heizzan, Old English hātan (“to call, order”) and Old Norse heita (“to call, name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swɛ.te/, /swe.te/

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Verb

souhaiter

1. to wish (for); to hope (for)

   On vous souhaite tout le bonheur du monde

   Pour aujourd'hui comme pour demain

   Que votre soleil éclaircisse l'ombre

   Qu'il brille d'amour au quotidien. - Sinsemilia Tout le bonheur du monde.

   We wish you all the happiness in the world.

   For today like for tomorrow

   That your sun should light up the shadows.

   That it shine love everyday.

   Literally:

   One you wish all the happiness of-the world

   For today like for tomorrow

   That your sun lighten the-shadow

   That-he shine of-love to-the everyday.

Conjugation

  Conjugation of souhaiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		souhaiter			avoir souhaité
gerund		en souhaitant			en ayant souhaité
present participle		souhaitant /swɛ.tɑ̃/ or /swe.tɑ̃/
past participle		souhaité /swɛ.te/ or /swe.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	souhaite /swɛt/	souhaites /swɛt/	souhaite /swɛt/	souhaitons /swɛ.tɔ̃/ or /swe.tɔ̃/	souhaitez /swɛ.te/ or /swe.te/	souhaitent /swɛt/
	imperfect	souhaitais /swɛ.tɛ/ or /swe.tɛ/	souhaitais /swɛ.tɛ/ or /swe.tɛ/	souhaitait /swɛ.tɛ/ or /swe.tɛ/	souhaitions /swɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /swe.tjɔ̃/	souhaitiez /swɛ.tje/ or /swe.tje/	souhaitaient /swɛ.tɛ/ or /swe.tɛ/
	past historic1	souhaitai /swɛ.te/ or /swe.te/	souhaitas /swɛ.ta/ or /swe.ta/	souhaita /swɛ.ta/ or /swe.ta/	souhaitâmes /swɛ.tam/ or /swe.tam/	souhaitâtes /swɛ.tat/ or /swe.tat/	souhaitèrent /swɛ.tɛʁ/ or /swe.tɛʁ/
	future	souhaiterai /swɛ.tʁe/	souhaiteras /swɛ.tʁa/	souhaitera /swɛ.tʁa/	souhaiterons /swɛ.tʁɔ̃/	souhaiterez /swɛ.tʁe/	souhaiteront /swɛ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	souhaiterais /swɛ.tʁɛ/	souhaiterais /swɛ.tʁɛ/	souhaiterait /swɛ.tʁɛ/	souhaiterions /swɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	souhaiteriez /swɛ.tə.ʁje/	souhaiteraient /swɛ.tʁɛ/
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	souhaite /swɛt/	souhaites /swɛt/	souhaite /swɛt/	souhaitions /swɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /swe.tjɔ̃/	souhaitiez /swɛ.tje/ or /swe.tje/	souhaitent /swɛt/
	imperfect1	souhaitasse /swɛ.tas/ or /swe.tas/	souhaitasses /swɛ.tas/ or /swe.tas/	souhaitât /swɛ.ta/ or /swe.ta/	souhaitassions /swɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /swe.ta.sjɔ̃/	souhaitassiez /swɛ.ta.sje/ or /swe.ta.sje/	souhaitassent /swɛ.tas/ or /swe.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	souhaite /swɛt/	—	souhaitons /swɛ.tɔ̃/ or /swe.tɔ̃/	souhaitez /swɛ.te/ or /swe.te/	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• souhait

Further reading

• “souhaiter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).