hausser
French, verb/o.se/
hausser is spelled H-A-U-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hausser is a French verb meaning “to raise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus haut, mettre dans une situation plus haute, élever”.
What does hausser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise
Le gouvernement a haussé le prix du pétrole.
- 2
to shrug
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus haut, mettre dans une situation plus haute, élever. 2. Lever, porter en haut. 3. Augmenter le volume sonore en parlant de la voix, du son des instruments. 4. Modifier la hauteur d’une note musicale vers les aiguës.
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 hausser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- haussant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- haussé participle past
- hausse first-person indicative present
- hausses indicative present second-person
- haussons first-person indicative plural
- haussez indicative plural present
- haussent indicative plural present
- haussais first-person imperfect indicative
- haussait imperfect indicative singular
- haussions first-person imperfect indicative
- haussiez imperfect indicative plural
- haussaient imperfect indicative plural
- haussai first-person historic indicative
- haussas historic indicative past
- haussa historic indicative past
- haussâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hausser?
- /o.se/
- ^((h aspiré))\o.se\
- [ʰo.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 hausser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hausser in French?
hausser appears 1.3 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).