glousser

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin clociare, from Latin glocire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlu.se/

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Verb

glousser

1. to cluck (make the noise of a chicken)
2. to gobble (make the noise of a turkey)
3. to chortle, to giggle
   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:

     Et, à un moment, tu comprends pourquoi ils gloussent tous : il y a des traces de rouge à lèvres sur la braguette de ton jean blanc.

     And at some point, you realize why they are all giggling: there are traces of lipstick on the flies of your white jeans.

Conjugation

Conjugation of glousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	glousser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gloussant /ɡlu.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gloussé /ɡlu.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	glousse /ɡlus/	glousses /ɡlus/	glousse /ɡlus/	gloussons /ɡlu.sɔ̃/	gloussez /ɡlu.se/	gloussent /ɡlus/
	imperfect	gloussais /ɡlu.sɛ/	gloussais /ɡlu.sɛ/	gloussait /ɡlu.sɛ/	gloussions /ɡlu.sjɔ̃/	gloussiez /ɡlu.sje/	gloussaient /ɡlu.sɛ/
	past historic2	gloussai /ɡlu.se/	gloussas /ɡlu.sa/	gloussa /ɡlu.sa/	gloussâmes /ɡlu.sam/	gloussâtes /ɡlu.sat/	gloussèrent /ɡlu.sɛʁ/
	future	glousserai /ɡlu.sʁe/	glousseras /ɡlu.sʁa/	gloussera /ɡlu.sʁa/	glousserons /ɡlu.sʁɔ̃/	glousserez /ɡlu.sʁe/	glousseront /ɡlu.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	glousserais /ɡlu.sʁɛ/	glousserais /ɡlu.sʁɛ/	glousserait /ɡlu.sʁɛ/	glousserions /ɡlu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	glousseriez /ɡlu.sə.ʁje/	glousseraient /ɡlu.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	glousse /ɡlus/	glousses /ɡlus/	glousse /ɡlus/	gloussions /ɡlu.sjɔ̃/	gloussiez /ɡlu.sje/	gloussent /ɡlus/
	imperfect2	gloussasse /ɡlu.sas/	gloussasses /ɡlu.sas/	gloussât /ɡlu.sa/	gloussassions /ɡlu.sa.sjɔ̃/	gloussassiez /ɡlu.sa.sje/	gloussassent /ɡlu.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	glousse /ɡlus/	—	gloussons /ɡlu.sɔ̃/	gloussez /ɡlu.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).

Related terms

• gloussement

Further reading

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