repousser
French
Etymology
From re- + pousser, or from Late Latin repulsāre. See also repulser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pu.se/
Audio: (file)
Verb
repousser
- to push back, push out of the way
- to repel, drive back, repulse
- to ward off, turn away
- to turn down, dismiss, reject, rule out
- 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:
- J'essaie d' connecter à toi qui me repousses constamment.
- I try to connect with you who constantly turns me away
- to push back (into place)
- to put off, defer, put back, postpone
- to repulse, repel (of something disgusting)
- to (hand-)emboss
Conjugation
Conjugation of repousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | repousser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | repoussant /ʁə.pu.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | repoussé /ʁə.pu.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | repousse /ʁə.pus/ |
repousses /ʁə.pus/ |
repousse /ʁə.pus/ |
repoussons /ʁə.pu.sɔ̃/ |
repoussez /ʁə.pu.se/ |
repoussent /ʁə.pus/ |
| imperfect | repoussais /ʁə.pu.sɛ/ |
repoussais /ʁə.pu.sɛ/ |
repoussait /ʁə.pu.sɛ/ |
repoussions /ʁə.pu.sjɔ̃/ |
repoussiez /ʁə.pu.sje/ |
repoussaient /ʁə.pu.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | repoussai /ʁə.pu.se/ |
repoussas /ʁə.pu.sa/ |
repoussa /ʁə.pu.sa/ |
repoussâmes /ʁə.pu.sam/ |
repoussâtes /ʁə.pu.sat/ |
repoussèrent /ʁə.pu.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | repousserai /ʁə.pu.sʁe/ |
repousseras /ʁə.pu.sʁa/ |
repoussera /ʁə.pu.sʁa/ |
repousserons /ʁə.pu.sʁɔ̃/ |
repousserez /ʁə.pu.sʁe/ |
repousseront /ʁə.pu.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | repousserais /ʁə.pu.sʁɛ/ |
repousserais /ʁə.pu.sʁɛ/ |
repousserait /ʁə.pu.sʁɛ/ |
repousserions /ʁə.pu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
repousseriez /ʁə.pu.sə.ʁje/ |
repousseraient /ʁə.pu.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 | repousse /ʁə.pus/ |
repousses /ʁə.pus/ |
repousse /ʁə.pus/ |
repoussions /ʁə.pu.sjɔ̃/ |
repoussiez /ʁə.pu.sje/ |
repoussent /ʁə.pus/ |
| imperfect2 | repoussasse /ʁə.pu.sas/ |
repoussasses /ʁə.pu.sas/ |
repoussât /ʁə.pu.sa/ |
repoussassions /ʁə.pu.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
repoussassiez /ʁə.pu.sa.sje/ |
repoussassent /ʁə.pu.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | repousse /ʁə.pus/ |
— | repoussons /ʁə.pu.sɔ̃/ |
repoussez /ʁə.pu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “repousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.