ruser

Danish

Noun

ruser c

1. indefinite plural of ruse

French

Etymology

From Latin recusāre, by loss of the medial 'c.' Related to Provencal reusar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.ze/

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Verb

ruser

1. to use one's cunning, to be crafty, to beguile

Conjugation

Conjugation of ruser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ruser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rusant /ʁy.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rusé /ʁy.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ruse /ʁyz/	ruses /ʁyz/	ruse /ʁyz/	rusons /ʁy.zɔ̃/	rusez /ʁy.ze/	rusent /ʁyz/
	imperfect	rusais /ʁy.zɛ/	rusais /ʁy.zɛ/	rusait /ʁy.zɛ/	rusions /ʁy.zjɔ̃/	rusiez /ʁy.zje/	rusaient /ʁy.zɛ/
	past historic2	rusai /ʁy.ze/	rusas /ʁy.za/	rusa /ʁy.za/	rusâmes /ʁy.zam/	rusâtes /ʁy.zat/	rusèrent /ʁy.zɛʁ/
	future	ruserai /ʁyz.ʁe/	ruseras /ʁyz.ʁa/	rusera /ʁyz.ʁa/	ruserons /ʁyz.ʁɔ̃/	ruserez /ʁyz.ʁe/	ruseront /ʁyz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ruserais /ʁyz.ʁɛ/	ruserais /ʁyz.ʁɛ/	ruserait /ʁyz.ʁɛ/	ruserions /ʁy.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	ruseriez /ʁy.zə.ʁje/	ruseraient /ʁyz.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	ruse /ʁyz/	ruses /ʁyz/	ruse /ʁyz/	rusions /ʁy.zjɔ̃/	rusiez /ʁy.zje/	rusent /ʁyz/
	imperfect2	rusasse /ʁy.zas/	rusasses /ʁy.zas/	rusât /ʁy.za/	rusassions /ʁy.za.sjɔ̃/	rusassiez /ʁy.za.sje/	rusassent /ʁy.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ruse /ʁyz/	—	rusons /ʁy.zɔ̃/	rusez /ʁy.ze/	—
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).

Related terms

• rusé
• ruse

Further reading

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ruser

1. present of rusa