chouchouter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

chouchouter

1. (transitive) to spoil, pamper

Conjugation

Conjugation of chouchouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chouchouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chouchoutant /ʃu.ʃu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chouchouté /ʃu.ʃu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chouchoute /ʃu.ʃut/	chouchoutes /ʃu.ʃut/	chouchoute /ʃu.ʃut/	chouchoutons /ʃu.ʃu.tɔ̃/	chouchoutez /ʃu.ʃu.te/	chouchoutent /ʃu.ʃut/
	imperfect	chouchoutais /ʃu.ʃu.tɛ/	chouchoutais /ʃu.ʃu.tɛ/	chouchoutait /ʃu.ʃu.tɛ/	chouchoutions /ʃu.ʃu.tjɔ̃/	chouchoutiez /ʃu.ʃu.tje/	chouchoutaient /ʃu.ʃu.tɛ/
	past historic2	chouchoutai /ʃu.ʃu.te/	chouchoutas /ʃu.ʃu.ta/	chouchouta /ʃu.ʃu.ta/	chouchoutâmes /ʃu.ʃu.tam/	chouchoutâtes /ʃu.ʃu.tat/	chouchoutèrent /ʃu.ʃu.tɛʁ/
	future	chouchouterai /ʃu.ʃu.tʁe/	chouchouteras /ʃu.ʃu.tʁa/	chouchoutera /ʃu.ʃu.tʁa/	chouchouterons /ʃu.ʃu.tʁɔ̃/	chouchouterez /ʃu.ʃu.tʁe/	chouchouteront /ʃu.ʃu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chouchouterais /ʃu.ʃu.tʁɛ/	chouchouterais /ʃu.ʃu.tʁɛ/	chouchouterait /ʃu.ʃu.tʁɛ/	chouchouterions /ʃu.ʃu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	chouchouteriez /ʃu.ʃu.tə.ʁje/	chouchouteraient /ʃu.ʃu.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	chouchoute /ʃu.ʃut/	chouchoutes /ʃu.ʃut/	chouchoute /ʃu.ʃut/	chouchoutions /ʃu.ʃu.tjɔ̃/	chouchoutiez /ʃu.ʃu.tje/	chouchoutent /ʃu.ʃut/
	imperfect2	chouchoutasse /ʃu.ʃu.tas/	chouchoutasses /ʃu.ʃu.tas/	chouchoutât /ʃu.ʃu.ta/	chouchoutassions /ʃu.ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/	chouchoutassiez /ʃu.ʃu.ta.sje/	chouchoutassent /ʃu.ʃu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chouchoute /ʃu.ʃut/	—	chouchoutons /ʃu.ʃu.tɔ̃/	chouchoutez /ʃu.ʃu.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: 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

• chouchoutement

Further reading

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