cherrer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

cherrer

1. (slang) to overdo it; to go too far

Conjugation

Conjugation of cherrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cherrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cherrant /ʃɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cherré /ʃɛ.ʁe/ or /ʃe.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cherre /ʃɛʁ/	cherres /ʃɛʁ/	cherre /ʃɛʁ/	cherrons /ʃɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁɔ̃/	cherrez /ʃɛ.ʁe/ or /ʃe.ʁe/	cherrent /ʃɛʁ/
	imperfect	cherrais /ʃɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁɛ/	cherrais /ʃɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁɛ/	cherrait /ʃɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁɛ/	cherrions /ʃɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁjɔ̃/	cherriez /ʃɛ.ʁje/ or /ʃe.ʁje/	cherraient /ʃɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	cherrai /ʃɛ.ʁe/ or /ʃe.ʁe/	cherras /ʃɛ.ʁa/ or /ʃe.ʁa/	cherra /ʃɛ.ʁa/ or /ʃe.ʁa/	cherrâmes /ʃɛ.ʁam/ or /ʃe.ʁam/	cherrâtes /ʃɛ.ʁat/ or /ʃe.ʁat/	cherrèrent /ʃɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /ʃe.ʁɛʁ/
	future	cherrerai /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁe/	cherreras /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁa/	cherrera /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁa/	cherrerons /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cherrerez /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁe/	cherreront /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cherrerais /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	cherrerais /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	cherrerait /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	cherrerions /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cherreriez /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /ʃe.ʁə.ʁje/	cherreraient /ʃɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʃe.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	cherre /ʃɛʁ/	cherres /ʃɛʁ/	cherre /ʃɛʁ/	cherrions /ʃɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁjɔ̃/	cherriez /ʃɛ.ʁje/ or /ʃe.ʁje/	cherrent /ʃɛʁ/
	imperfect2	cherrasse /ʃɛ.ʁas/ or /ʃe.ʁas/	cherrasses /ʃɛ.ʁas/ or /ʃe.ʁas/	cherrât /ʃɛ.ʁa/ or /ʃe.ʁa/	cherrassions /ʃɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	cherrassiez /ʃɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /ʃe.ʁa.sje/	cherrassent /ʃɛ.ʁas/ or /ʃe.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cherre /ʃɛʁ/	—	cherrons /ʃɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃe.ʁɔ̃/	cherrez /ʃɛ.ʁe/ or /ʃe.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).

References

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