chasser
French, verb/ʃa.se/
chasser is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,605th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chasser is a French verb meaning “to hunt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre dehors avec violence ; contraindre ou forcer de sortir de quelque lieu”.
What does chasser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hunt
La lionne utilisera toutes ses forces, même pour chasser un lapin.
- 2
to chase
- 3
to drive off
- 4
to chassé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre dehors avec violence ; contraindre ou forcer de sortir de quelque lieu. 2. Congédier, renvoyer une personne dont on est mal satisfait. 3. Poursuivre, prendre en chasse, en parlant d’un navire. 4. Chercher à tuer le gibier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chasser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chassant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chassé participle past
- chasse first-person indicative present
- chasses indicative present second-person
- chassons first-person indicative plural
- chassez indicative plural present
- chassent indicative plural present
- chassais first-person imperfect indicative
- chassait imperfect indicative singular
- chassions first-person imperfect indicative
- chassiez imperfect indicative plural
- chassaient imperfect indicative plural
- chassai first-person historic indicative
- chassas historic indicative past
- chassa historic indicative past
- chassâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chasser?
- /ʃa.se/
- \ʃa.se\
- [ʃa.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chasser in French?
chasser appears 10 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).