chanceler

English

Noun

chanceler (plural chancelers)

1. Obsolete form of chancellor.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cancellāre. Doublet of canceller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.sle/

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Verb

chanceler

1. (of a person) to stagger, totter, reel
   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 21:

     Vernon y allait juste pour accompagner et puis une fois sur place, une émotion inattendue l’avait fait chanceler, il avait collé son épaule contre celle de son pote et les larmes lui étaient montées aux yeux.

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2. (of an object) to wobble
3. (figurative) to falter, waver (of resolve etc.)

   Synonym: vaciller

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of chanceler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chanceler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chancelant /ʃɑ̃.slɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chancelé /ʃɑ̃.sle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chancelle or chancèle /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	chancelles or chancèles /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	chancelle or chancèle /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	chancelons /ʃɑ̃.slɔ̃/	chancelez /ʃɑ̃.sle/	chancellent or chancèlent /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/
	imperfect	chancelais /ʃɑ̃.slɛ/	chancelais /ʃɑ̃.slɛ/	chancelait /ʃɑ̃.slɛ/	chancelions /ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɔ̃/	chanceliez /ʃɑ̃.sə.lje/	chancelaient /ʃɑ̃.slɛ/
	past historic2	chancelai /ʃɑ̃.sle/	chancelas /ʃɑ̃.sla/	chancela /ʃɑ̃.sla/	chancelâmes /ʃɑ̃.slam/	chancelâtes /ʃɑ̃.slat/	chancelèrent /ʃɑ̃.slɛʁ/
	future	chancellerai or chancèlerai /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁe/	chancelleras or chancèleras /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁa/	chancellera or chancèlera /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁa/	chancellerons or chancèlerons /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	chancellerez or chancèlerez /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁe/	chancelleront or chancèleront /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chancellerais or chancèlerais /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁɛ/	chancellerais or chancèlerais /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁɛ/	chancellerait or chancèlerait /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.ʁɛ/	chancellerions or chancèlerions /ʃɑ̃.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ̃.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	chancelleriez or chancèleriez /ʃɑ̃.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ʃɑ̃.se.lə.ʁje/	chancelleraient or chancèleraient /ʃɑ̃.sɛl.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	chancelle or chancèle /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	chancelles or chancèles /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	chancelle or chancèle /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	chancelions /ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɔ̃/	chanceliez /ʃɑ̃.sə.lje/	chancellent or chancèlent /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/
	imperfect2	chancelasse /ʃɑ̃.slas/	chancelasses /ʃɑ̃.slas/	chancelât /ʃɑ̃.sla/	chancelassions /ʃɑ̃.sla.sjɔ̃/	chancelassiez /ʃɑ̃.sla.sje/	chancelassent /ʃɑ̃.slas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chancelle or chancèle /ʃɑ̃.sɛl/	—	chancelons /ʃɑ̃.slɔ̃/	chancelez /ʃɑ̃.sle/	—
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

• chancelant

Related terms

• chancel

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(ʁ)/ [ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(ʁ)/ [ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(ʁ)/ [ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.seˈlɛ(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.sɨˈlɛɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.sɨˈlɛɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐ̃.sɨˈlɛɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.sɨˈlɛ.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: chan‧ce‧ler

Noun

chanceler m or f by sense (plural chanceleres)

1. chancellor (important notary; person in charge of some area of government)