tchatcher
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tchatcher
- to chat
- Synonym: discuter
- On a tchatché toute la soirée dans un bar à tapas.
- We chatted all night at a tapas bar.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of tchatcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tchatcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tchatchant /tʃat.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tchatché /tʃat.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ |
tchatches /tʃatʃ/ |
tchatche /tʃatʃ/ |
tchatchons /tʃat.ʃɔ̃/ |
tchatchez /tʃat.ʃe/ |
tchatchent /tʃatʃ/ |
| imperfect | tchatchais /tʃat.ʃɛ/ |
tchatchais /tʃat.ʃɛ/ |
tchatchait /tʃat.ʃɛ/ |
tchatchions /tʃat.ʃjɔ̃/ |
tchatchiez /tʃat.ʃje/ |
tchatchaient /tʃat.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tchatchai /tʃat.ʃe/ |
tchatchas /tʃat.ʃa/ |
tchatcha /tʃat.ʃa/ |
tchatchâmes /tʃat.ʃam/ |
tchatchâtes /tʃat.ʃat/ |
tchatchèrent /tʃat.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | tchatcherai /tʃat.ʃə.ʁe/ |
tchatcheras /tʃat.ʃə.ʁa/ |
tchatchera /tʃat.ʃə.ʁa/ |
tchatcherons /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
tchatcherez /tʃat.ʃə.ʁe/ |
tchatcheront /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tchatcherais /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
tchatcherais /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
tchatcherait /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
tchatcherions /tʃat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tchatcheriez /tʃat.ʃə.ʁje/ |
tchatcheraient /tʃat.ʃə.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 | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ |
tchatches /tʃatʃ/ |
tchatche /tʃatʃ/ |
tchatchions /tʃat.ʃjɔ̃/ |
tchatchiez /tʃat.ʃje/ |
tchatchent /tʃatʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | tchatchasse /tʃat.ʃas/ |
tchatchasses /tʃat.ʃas/ |
tchatchât /tʃat.ʃa/ |
tchatchassions /tʃat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
tchatchassiez /tʃat.ʃa.sje/ |
tchatchassent /tʃat.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ |
— | tchatchons /tʃat.ʃɔ̃/ |
tchatchez /tʃat.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 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). | |||||||