hâter

See also: hater and hatër

French

Etymology

From hâte.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.te/ ~ /ɑ.te/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: hâtai, hâté, hâtée, hâtées, hâtés, hâtez

Verb

hâter

1. (transitive) to speed up, hasten
2. (reflexive) to hurry
   • 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Premières méditations poétiques‎^[1]:

     « Aimons donc, aimons donc ! de l’heure fugitive, ¶ Hâtons-nous, jouissons ! ¶ L’homme n’a point de port, le temps n’a point de rive ; ¶ Il coule, et nous passons ! »

     Let's love, then, let's love, then! from fleeing time ¶ Let's hurry, let's enjoy! ¶ Man has no port, time no banks ¶ It flows, and we pass through!"

Conjugation

Conjugation of hâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	hâter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hâtant /a.tɑ̃/ or /ɑ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hâté /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hâte /at/ or /ɑt/	hâtes /at/ or /ɑt/	hâte /at/ or /ɑt/	hâtons /a.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tɔ̃/	hâtez /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/	hâtent /at/ or /ɑt/
	imperfect	hâtais /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/	hâtais /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/	hâtait /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/	hâtions /a.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tjɔ̃/	hâtiez /a.tje/ or /ɑ.tje/	hâtaient /a.tɛ/ or /ɑ.tɛ/
	past historic2	hâtai /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/	hâtas /a.ta/ or /ɑ.ta/	hâta /a.ta/ or /ɑ.ta/	hâtâmes /a.tam/ or /ɑ.tam/	hâtâtes /a.tat/ or /ɑ.tat/	hâtèrent /a.tɛʁ/ or /ɑ.tɛʁ/
	future	hâterai /a.tʁe/ or /ɑ.tʁe/	hâteras /a.tʁa/ or /ɑ.tʁa/	hâtera /a.tʁa/ or /ɑ.tʁa/	hâterons /a.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tʁɔ̃/	hâterez /a.tʁe/ or /ɑ.tʁe/	hâteront /a.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hâterais /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/	hâterais /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/	hâterait /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/	hâterions /a.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	hâteriez /a.tə.ʁje/ or /ɑ.tə.ʁje/	hâteraient /a.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ.tʁɛ/
(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	hâte /at/ or /ɑt/	hâtes /at/ or /ɑt/	hâte /at/ or /ɑt/	hâtions /a.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tjɔ̃/	hâtiez /a.tje/ or /ɑ.tje/	hâtent /at/ or /ɑt/
	imperfect2	hâtasse /a.tas/ or /ɑ.tas/	hâtasses /a.tas/ or /ɑ.tas/	hâtât /a.ta/ or /ɑ.ta/	hâtassions /a.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/	hâtassiez /a.ta.sje/ or /ɑ.ta.sje/	hâtassent /a.tas/ or /ɑ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hâte /at/ or /ɑt/	—	hâtons /a.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ.tɔ̃/	hâtez /a.te/ or /ɑ.te/	—
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).

Synonyms

• empresser

Further reading

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