chater
French
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Verb
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Conjugation
editConjugation of chater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chatant /ʃa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chaté /ʃa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chate /ʃat/ |
chates /ʃat/ |
chate /ʃat/ |
chatons /ʃa.tɔ̃/ |
chatez /ʃa.te/ |
chatent /ʃat/ |
| imperfect | chatais /ʃa.tɛ/ |
chatais /ʃa.tɛ/ |
chatait /ʃa.tɛ/ |
chations /ʃa.tjɔ̃/ |
chatiez /ʃa.tje/ |
chataient /ʃa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chatai /ʃa.te/ |
chatas /ʃa.ta/ |
chata /ʃa.ta/ |
chatâmes /ʃa.tam/ |
chatâtes /ʃa.tat/ |
chatèrent /ʃa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | chaterai /ʃa.tʁe/ |
chateras /ʃa.tʁa/ |
chatera /ʃa.tʁa/ |
chaterons /ʃa.tʁɔ̃/ |
chaterez /ʃa.tʁe/ |
chateront /ʃa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chaterais /ʃa.tʁɛ/ |
chaterais /ʃa.tʁɛ/ |
chaterait /ʃa.tʁɛ/ |
chaterions /ʃa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chateriez /ʃa.tə.ʁje/ |
chateraient /ʃa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | chate /ʃat/ |
chates /ʃat/ |
chate /ʃat/ |
chations /ʃa.tjɔ̃/ |
chatiez /ʃa.tje/ |
chatent /ʃat/ |
| imperfect2 | chatasse /ʃa.tas/ |
chatasses /ʃa.tas/ |
chatât /ʃa.ta/ |
chatassions /ʃa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
chatassiez /ʃa.ta.sje/ |
chatassent /ʃa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chate /ʃat/ |
— | chatons /ʃa.tɔ̃/ |
chatez /ʃa.te/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||