chevaucher
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French chevauchier, from Old French chevauchier, from Late Latin caballicāre, present active infinitive of caballicō, from Latin caballus (“horse; nag; jade”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
chevaucher
- to straddle, be astride
- to span, sit/be across
- to ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to overlap
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of chevaucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chevaucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chevauchant /ʃə.vo.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chevauché /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauches /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauchons /ʃə.vo.ʃɔ̃/ |
chevauchez /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ |
chevauchent /ʃə.voʃ/ |
| imperfect | chevauchais /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ |
chevauchais /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ |
chevauchait /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ |
chevauchions /ʃə.vo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
chevauchiez /ʃə.vo.ʃje/ |
chevauchaient /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chevauchai /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ |
chevauchas /ʃə.vo.ʃa/ |
chevaucha /ʃə.vo.ʃa/ |
chevauchâmes /ʃə.vo.ʃam/ |
chevauchâtes /ʃə.vo.ʃat/ |
chevauchèrent /ʃə.vo.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | chevaucherai /ʃə.voʃ.ʁe/ |
chevaucheras /ʃə.voʃ.ʁa/ |
chevauchera /ʃə.voʃ.ʁa/ |
chevaucherons /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
chevaucherez /ʃə.voʃ.ʁe/ |
chevaucheront /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chevaucherais /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/ |
chevaucherais /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/ |
chevaucherait /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/ |
chevaucherions /ʃə.vo.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chevaucheriez /ʃə.vo.ʃə.ʁje/ |
chevaucheraient /ʃə.voʃ.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 | chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauches /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauchions /ʃə.vo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
chevauchiez /ʃə.vo.ʃje/ |
chevauchent /ʃə.voʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | chevauchasse /ʃə.vo.ʃas/ |
chevauchasses /ʃə.vo.ʃas/ |
chevauchât /ʃə.vo.ʃa/ |
chevauchassions /ʃə.vo.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
chevauchassiez /ʃə.vo.ʃa.sje/ |
chevauchassent /ʃə.vo.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
— | chevauchons /ʃə.vo.ʃɔ̃/ |
chevauchez /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “chevaucher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).