chérir
See also: cherir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃe.ʁiʁ/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: chérirent
Verb
chérir
- (transitive) to cherish
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of chérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chérissant /ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chéri /ʃe.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérit /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérissons /ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
chérissez /ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
chérissent /ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | chérissais /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
chérissais /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
chérissait /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
chérissions /ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
chérissiez /ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
chérissaient /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérit /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérîmes /ʃe.ʁim/ |
chérîtes /ʃe.ʁit/ |
chérirent /ʃe.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | chérirai /ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
chériras /ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
chérira /ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
chérirons /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
chérirez /ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
chériront /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chérirais /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
chérirais /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
chérirait /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
chéririons /ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chéririez /ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
chériraient /ʃe.ʁi.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 | chérisse /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérisses /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérisse /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérissions /ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
chérissiez /ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
chérissent /ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | chérisse /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérisses /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérît /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérissions /ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
chérissiez /ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
chérissent /ʃe.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | chérissons /ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
chérissez /ʃe.ʁi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “chérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.