chavirer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan cap-virar, capvirar (cf. cap and virer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.vi.ʁe/

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Verb

chavirer

1. (transitive, intransitive) to capsize
2. (intransitive) to overturn, keel over, tip over (of objects etc.)
3. (intransitive, figuratively) to roll (of eyes); to reel, spin (of room etc.); to turn over (of heart)
4. (transitive) to bowl over, shatter (someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of chavirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chavirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chavirant /ʃa.vi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chaviré /ʃa.vi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chavire /ʃa.viʁ/	chavires /ʃa.viʁ/	chavire /ʃa.viʁ/	chavirons /ʃa.vi.ʁɔ̃/	chavirez /ʃa.vi.ʁe/	chavirent /ʃa.viʁ/
	imperfect	chavirais /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/	chavirais /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/	chavirait /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/	chavirions /ʃa.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	chaviriez /ʃa.vi.ʁje/	chaviraient /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	chavirai /ʃa.vi.ʁe/	chaviras /ʃa.vi.ʁa/	chavira /ʃa.vi.ʁa/	chavirâmes /ʃa.vi.ʁam/	chavirâtes /ʃa.vi.ʁat/	chavirèrent /ʃa.vi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	chavirerai /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁe/	chavireras /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁa/	chavirera /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁa/	chavirerons /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	chavirerez /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁe/	chavireront /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chavirerais /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	chavirerais /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	chavirerait /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	chavirerions /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	chavireriez /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁje/	chavireraient /ʃa.vi.ʁə.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	chavire /ʃa.viʁ/	chavires /ʃa.viʁ/	chavire /ʃa.viʁ/	chavirions /ʃa.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	chaviriez /ʃa.vi.ʁje/	chavirent /ʃa.viʁ/
	imperfect2	chavirasse /ʃa.vi.ʁas/	chavirasses /ʃa.vi.ʁas/	chavirât /ʃa.vi.ʁa/	chavirassions /ʃa.vi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	chavirassiez /ʃa.vi.ʁa.sje/	chavirassent /ʃa.vi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chavire /ʃa.viʁ/	—	chavirons /ʃa.vi.ʁɔ̃/	chavirez /ʃa.vi.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• chavirage
• chavirement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• archiver