pousser

Signification

1. to push
2. to urge on, encourage
3. to grow
4. to spring up, to sprout
5. to utter (a cry)
6. to move aside

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pu.se/

Étymologie

Inherited from Old French, inherited from Latin pulsāre, from pulsus (“a push”) (and frequentative of pellō). Compare the prefixed verb expulser, a borrowing from Latin.

Phrases

Un bulbe seul peut pousser et fleurir pendant quelques années .

A single bulb can grow and bloom for a few years.