chancir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɑ̃.siʁ/
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Verb
chancir
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 chancir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chancir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chancissant /ʃɑ̃.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chanci /ʃɑ̃.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancit /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancissons /ʃɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/ |
chancissez /ʃɑ̃.si.se/ |
chancissent /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
| imperfect | chancissais /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/ |
chancissais /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/ |
chancissait /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/ |
chancissions /ʃɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
chancissiez /ʃɑ̃.si.sje/ |
chancissaient /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancit /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancîmes /ʃɑ̃.sim/ |
chancîtes /ʃɑ̃.sit/ |
chancirent /ʃɑ̃.siʁ/ | |
| future | chancirai /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
chanciras /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
chancira /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
chancirons /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
chancirez /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
chanciront /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chancirais /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
chancirais /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
chancirait /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
chancirions /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chanciriez /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁje/ |
chanciraient /ʃɑ̃.si.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 | chancisse /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
chancisses /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
chancisse /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
chancissions /ʃɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
chancissiez /ʃɑ̃.si.sje/ |
chancissent /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | chancisse /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
chancisses /ʃɑ̃.sis/ |
chancît /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
chancissions /ʃɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
chancissiez /ʃɑ̃.si.sje/ |
chancissent /ʃɑ̃.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/ |
— | chancissons /ʃɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/ |
chancissez /ʃɑ̃.si.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
- “chancir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.