tousser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French toussir with change of conjugation class, from Latin tussīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.se/

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Verb

tousser

1. (intransitive) to cough

Conjugation

Conjugation of tousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tousser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	toussant /tu.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		toussé /tu.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tousse /tus/	tousses /tus/	tousse /tus/	toussons /tu.sɔ̃/	toussez /tu.se/	toussent /tus/
	imperfect	toussais /tu.sɛ/	toussais /tu.sɛ/	toussait /tu.sɛ/	toussions /tu.sjɔ̃/	toussiez /tu.sje/	toussaient /tu.sɛ/
	past historic2	toussai /tu.se/	toussas /tu.sa/	toussa /tu.sa/	toussâmes /tu.sam/	toussâtes /tu.sat/	toussèrent /tu.sɛʁ/
	future	tousserai /tu.sʁe/	tousseras /tu.sʁa/	toussera /tu.sʁa/	tousserons /tu.sʁɔ̃/	tousserez /tu.sʁe/	tousseront /tu.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tousserais /tu.sʁɛ/	tousserais /tu.sʁɛ/	tousserait /tu.sʁɛ/	tousserions /tu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	tousseriez /tu.sə.ʁje/	tousseraient /tu.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	tousse /tus/	tousses /tus/	tousse /tus/	toussions /tu.sjɔ̃/	toussiez /tu.sje/	toussent /tus/
	imperfect2	toussasse /tu.sas/	toussasses /tu.sas/	toussât /tu.sa/	toussassions /tu.sa.sjɔ̃/	toussassiez /tu.sa.sje/	toussassent /tu.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tousse /tus/	—	toussons /tu.sɔ̃/	toussez /tu.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

• toussoter
• toux

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• trousse, troussé