chausser
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chaucier, inherited from Latin calceāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃo.se/
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Verb
chausser
- (transitive) to put footwear (on someone)
- (transitive) to shoe (a horse)
- (reflexive) to put on footwear
- (intransitive) to have a certain shoe size
- Tu chausses du combien ? ― What size shoes do you wear?
- (transitive) to mulch (a tree)
Conjugation
Conjugation of chausser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chausser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chaussant /ʃo.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chaussé /ʃo.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chausse /ʃos/ |
chausses /ʃos/ |
chausse /ʃos/ |
chaussons /ʃo.sɔ̃/ |
chaussez /ʃo.se/ |
chaussent /ʃos/ |
| imperfect | chaussais /ʃo.sɛ/ |
chaussais /ʃo.sɛ/ |
chaussait /ʃo.sɛ/ |
chaussions /ʃo.sjɔ̃/ |
chaussiez /ʃo.sje/ |
chaussaient /ʃo.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chaussai /ʃo.se/ |
chaussas /ʃo.sa/ |
chaussa /ʃo.sa/ |
chaussâmes /ʃo.sam/ |
chaussâtes /ʃo.sat/ |
chaussèrent /ʃo.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | chausserai /ʃo.sʁe/ |
chausseras /ʃo.sʁa/ |
chaussera /ʃo.sʁa/ |
chausserons /ʃo.sʁɔ̃/ |
chausserez /ʃo.sʁe/ |
chausseront /ʃo.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chausserais /ʃo.sʁɛ/ |
chausserais /ʃo.sʁɛ/ |
chausserait /ʃo.sʁɛ/ |
chausserions /ʃo.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chausseriez /ʃo.sə.ʁje/ |
chausseraient /ʃo.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | chausse /ʃos/ |
chausses /ʃos/ |
chausse /ʃos/ |
chaussions /ʃo.sjɔ̃/ |
chaussiez /ʃo.sje/ |
chaussent /ʃos/ |
| imperfect2 | chaussasse /ʃo.sas/ |
chaussasses /ʃo.sas/ |
chaussât /ʃo.sa/ |
chaussassions /ʃo.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
chaussassiez /ʃo.sa.sje/ |
chaussassent /ʃo.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chausse /ʃos/ |
— | chaussons /ʃo.sɔ̃/ |
chaussez /ʃo.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
- chausse / chausses
- chaussette
- chaussier
- déchausser
Further reading
- “chausser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.