Hüter

Hâter is a French verb meaning to hasten, to speed up the progress of someone or something, or to hurry a process. It can describe making actions occur more quickly or urging movement or events to occur sooner. The term is mainly literary or historical in modern usage; in everyday French, speakers more commonly use accélérer or se dépêcher.

The verb is transitive and is often combined with phrases like hâter le pas (to hasten one’s pace) or hâter les préparatifs (to hasten the preparations). It can convey a sense of urging or pressing for quicker results, and may appear in both narrative and formal writing. Inferred nuance ranges from neutral acceleration to a mild sense of urgency, depending on context.

Hâter derives from Old French hâter, related to the noun hâte (haste). It is cognate with English haste, reflecting a common Indo-European heritage for this idea of speed and urgency.

Conjugation and forms: hâter follows the regular pattern of -er verbs. Present tense forms include je hâte, tu hâtes, il hâte, nous hâtons, vous hâtez, ils hâtent; the past participle is hâté, used with auxiliary avoir or sometimes être in compound tenses. The pronunciation centers on a tense, open vowel with the circumflex on the a in the stem.

See also: synonyms and related expressions such as accélérer, presser, and se dépêcher; usage notes emphasize its literary or historical register in contemporary French.