chasser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chacier, from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin captus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.se/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: chassé

Verb

chasser

1. to hunt

   La lionne utilisera toutes ses forces, même pour chasser un lapin. ― The lioness will use all her strength, even when hunting a rabbit.

2. to chase
3. to drive off
4. (intransitive, dance) to chassé

Conjugation

Conjugation of chasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chassant /ʃa.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chassé /ʃa.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chasse /ʃas/	chasses /ʃas/	chasse /ʃas/	chassons /ʃa.sɔ̃/	chassez /ʃa.se/	chassent /ʃas/
	imperfect	chassais /ʃa.sɛ/	chassais /ʃa.sɛ/	chassait /ʃa.sɛ/	chassions /ʃa.sjɔ̃/	chassiez /ʃa.sje/	chassaient /ʃa.sɛ/
	past historic2	chassai /ʃa.se/	chassas /ʃa.sa/	chassa /ʃa.sa/	chassâmes /ʃa.sam/	chassâtes /ʃa.sat/	chassèrent /ʃa.sɛʁ/
	future	chasserai /ʃa.sʁe/	chasseras /ʃa.sʁa/	chassera /ʃa.sʁa/	chasserons /ʃa.sʁɔ̃/	chasserez /ʃa.sʁe/	chasseront /ʃa.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chasserais /ʃa.sʁɛ/	chasserais /ʃa.sʁɛ/	chasserait /ʃa.sʁɛ/	chasserions /ʃa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	chasseriez /ʃa.sə.ʁje/	chasseraient /ʃa.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	chasse /ʃas/	chasses /ʃas/	chasse /ʃas/	chassions /ʃa.sjɔ̃/	chassiez /ʃa.sje/	chassent /ʃas/
	imperfect2	chassasse /ʃa.sas/	chassasses /ʃa.sas/	chassât /ʃa.sa/	chassassions /ʃa.sa.sjɔ̃/	chassassiez /ʃa.sa.sje/	chassassent /ʃa.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chasse /ʃas/	—	chassons /ʃa.sɔ̃/	chassez /ʃa.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

• chasse patate
• chasse vieillesse
• chasse-café
• chasseresse
• chasseur
• chasseuse
• chassez le naturel, il revient au galop
• pas chassé

 

Descendants

• → German: schassen

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cashers, crashes, crashés