halluciner
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hālūcinārī.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.ly.si.ne/
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Verb
halluciner
- to hallucinate
- (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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “halluciner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.