chahuter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.y.te/
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Verb
chahuter
- (usually of children) to playfight, to horseplay, to mess around
Conjugation
Conjugation of chahuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chahuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chahutant /ʃa.y.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chahuté /ʃa.y.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chahute /ʃa.yt/ |
chahutes /ʃa.yt/ |
chahute /ʃa.yt/ |
chahutons /ʃa.y.tɔ̃/ |
chahutez /ʃa.y.te/ |
chahutent /ʃa.yt/ |
| imperfect | chahutais /ʃa.y.tɛ/ |
chahutais /ʃa.y.tɛ/ |
chahutait /ʃa.y.tɛ/ |
chahutions /ʃa.y.tjɔ̃/ |
chahutiez /ʃa.y.tje/ |
chahutaient /ʃa.y.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chahutai /ʃa.y.te/ |
chahutas /ʃa.y.ta/ |
chahuta /ʃa.y.ta/ |
chahutâmes /ʃa.y.tam/ |
chahutâtes /ʃa.y.tat/ |
chahutèrent /ʃa.y.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | chahuterai /ʃa.y.tʁe/ |
chahuteras /ʃa.y.tʁa/ |
chahutera /ʃa.y.tʁa/ |
chahuterons /ʃa.y.tʁɔ̃/ |
chahuterez /ʃa.y.tʁe/ |
chahuteront /ʃa.y.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chahuterais /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/ |
chahuterais /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/ |
chahuterait /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/ |
chahuterions /ʃa.y.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chahuteriez /ʃa.y.tə.ʁje/ |
chahuteraient /ʃa.y.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 | chahute /ʃa.yt/ |
chahutes /ʃa.yt/ |
chahute /ʃa.yt/ |
chahutions /ʃa.y.tjɔ̃/ |
chahutiez /ʃa.y.tje/ |
chahutent /ʃa.yt/ |
| imperfect2 | chahutasse /ʃa.y.tas/ |
chahutasses /ʃa.y.tas/ |
chahutât /ʃa.y.ta/ |
chahutassions /ʃa.y.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
chahutassiez /ʃa.y.ta.sje/ |
chahutassent /ʃa.y.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chahute /ʃa.yt/ |
— | chahutons /ʃa.y.tɔ̃/ |
chahutez /ʃa.y.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “chahuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.