Inherited from Middle French houssepillier (“to mistreat by shaking or growling”) and Norman gouspiller (“to shake, thrash, ill-treat”), both from a root *housp-, *gousp- (“to scorn, scold, reproach”), from or akin to Old English hosp (“reproach, insult”), Old English ġehyspan (“to deride, scorn, mock, reproach”) (—Diez), or from Proto-West Germanic *husp, *husk, from Proto-Indo-European *kūd- (“to mock”).
Related to Old English husċ (“mockery, scorn, insult, derision”), Old High German hosc (“invective, censure, mockery, travesty”), Norwegian dialectal huta (“to shout at, treat contemptuously”). Related to English forhush.
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houspiller
| infinitive | simple | houspiller | |||||
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| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | houspillant /us.pi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | houspillé /us.pi.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | houspille /us.pij/ |
houspilles /us.pij/ |
houspille /us.pij/ |
houspillons /us.pi.jɔ̃/ |
houspillez /us.pi.je/ |
houspillent /us.pij/ |
| imperfect | houspillais /us.pi.jɛ/ |
houspillais /us.pi.jɛ/ |
houspillait /us.pi.jɛ/ |
houspillions /us.pij.jɔ̃/ |
houspilliez /us.pij.je/ |
houspillaient /us.pi.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | houspillai /us.pi.je/ |
houspillas /us.pi.ja/ |
houspilla /us.pi.ja/ |
houspillâmes /us.pi.jam/ |
houspillâtes /us.pi.jat/ |
houspillèrent /us.pi.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | houspillerai /us.pij.ʁe/ |
houspilleras /us.pij.ʁa/ |
houspillera /us.pij.ʁa/ |
houspillerons /us.pij.ʁɔ̃/ |
houspillerez /us.pij.ʁe/ |
houspilleront /us.pij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | houspillerais /us.pij.ʁɛ/ |
houspillerais /us.pij.ʁɛ/ |
houspillerait /us.pij.ʁɛ/ |
houspillerions /us.pi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
houspilleriez /us.pi.jə.ʁje/ |
houspilleraient /us.pij.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 | houspille /us.pij/ |
houspilles /us.pij/ |
houspille /us.pij/ |
houspillions /us.pij.jɔ̃/ |
houspilliez /us.pij.je/ |
houspillent /us.pij/ |
| imperfect2 | houspillasse /us.pi.jas/ |
houspillasses /us.pi.jas/ |
houspillât /us.pi.ja/ |
houspillassions /us.pi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
houspillassiez /us.pi.ja.sje/ |
houspillassent /us.pi.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | houspille /us.pij/ |
— | houspillons /us.pi.jɔ̃/ |
houspillez /us.pi.je/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||