chauvir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

chauvir

1. (intransitive, dated) to perk up, to rise up (said of the ears of certain equine animals like donkeys)

Conjugation

The forms without -iss- are recommended by the French Academy, although their usage is not common.

Conjugation of chauvir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chauvir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chauvant or chauvissant /ʃo.vɑ̃/ or /ʃo.vi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chauvi /ʃo.vi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chauvis /ʃo.vi/	chauvis /ʃo.vi/	chauvit /ʃo.vi/	chauvons or chauvissons /ʃo.vɔ̃/ or /ʃo.vi.sɔ̃/	chauvez or chauvissez /ʃo.ve/ or /ʃo.vi.se/	chauvent or chauvissent /ʃov/ or /ʃo.vis/
	imperfect	chauvais or chauvissais /ʃo.vɛ/ or /ʃo.vi.sɛ/	chauvais or chauvissais /ʃo.vɛ/ or /ʃo.vi.sɛ/	chauvait or chauvissait /ʃo.vɛ/ or /ʃo.vi.sɛ/	chauvions or chauvissions /ʃo.vjɔ̃/ or /ʃo.vi.sjɔ̃/	chauviez or chauvissiez /ʃo.vje/ or /ʃo.vi.sje/	chauvaient or chauvissaient /ʃo.vɛ/ or /ʃo.vi.sɛ/
	past historic2	chauvis /ʃo.vi/	chauvis /ʃo.vi/	chauvit /ʃo.vi/	chauvîmes /ʃo.vim/	chauvîtes /ʃo.vit/	chauvirent /ʃo.viʁ/
	future	chauvirai /ʃo.vi.ʁe/	chauviras /ʃo.vi.ʁa/	chauvira /ʃo.vi.ʁa/	chauvirons /ʃo.vi.ʁɔ̃/	chauvirez /ʃo.vi.ʁe/	chauviront /ʃo.vi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chauvirais /ʃo.vi.ʁɛ/	chauvirais /ʃo.vi.ʁɛ/	chauvirait /ʃo.vi.ʁɛ/	chauvirions /ʃo.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	chauviriez /ʃo.vi.ʁje/	chauviraient /ʃo.vi.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	chauve or chauvisse /ʃov/ or /ʃo.vis/	chauves or chauvisses /ʃov/ or /ʃo.vis/	chauve or chauvisse /ʃov/ or /ʃo.vis/	chauvions or chauvissions /ʃo.vjɔ̃/ or /ʃo.vi.sjɔ̃/	chauviez or chauvissiez /ʃo.vje/ or /ʃo.vi.sje/	chauvent or chauvissent /ʃov/ or /ʃo.vis/
	imperfect2	chauvisse /ʃo.vis/	chauvisses /ʃo.vis/	chauvît /ʃo.vi/	chauvissions /ʃo.vi.sjɔ̃/	chauvissiez /ʃo.vi.sje/	chauvissent /ʃo.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chauvis /ʃo.vi/	—	chauvons or chauvissons /ʃo.vɔ̃/ or /ʃo.vi.sɔ̃/	chauvez or chauvissez /ʃo.ve/ or /ʃo.vi.se/	—
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).

Further reading

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