hâter
French, verb/a.te/
hâter is spelled H-Â-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hâter is a French verb meaning “to speed up, hasten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire avancer vite ; accélérer”.
What does hâter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to speed up, hasten
- 2
to hurry
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire avancer vite ; accélérer. 2. Faire avancer en maturité, en parlant des fruits. 3. Exécuter vite. 4. Faire diligence ; se presser.
noun: 1. Propagateur de haine sur les réseaux.
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 hâter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- hâtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- hâté participle past
- hâte first-person indicative present
- hâtes indicative present second-person
- hâtons first-person indicative plural
- hâtez indicative plural present
- hâtent indicative plural present
- hâtais first-person imperfect indicative
- hâtait imperfect indicative singular
- hâtions first-person imperfect indicative
- hâtiez imperfect indicative plural
- hâtaient imperfect indicative plural
- hâtai first-person historic indicative
- hâtas historic indicative past
- hâta historic indicative past
- hâtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hâter?
- /a.te/
- /ɑ.te/
- ^((h aspiré))\ɑ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hâter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hâter in French?
hâter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).