halluciner

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hālūcinārī.

Pronunciation
  • (mute h) IPA(key): /a.ly.si.ne/
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Verb

halluciner

  1. to hallucinate
  2. (informal) to be flabbergasted
    Synonym: tomber des nues
    • 1987, Alain Chamfort, Pierre Grillet (lyrics and music), “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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • 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).

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