chiffrer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃi.fʁe/
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Verb
chiffrer
- (transitive) to number (to add a number to)
- (intransitive) to add up (accumulate)
- (transitive) to cipher, to encipher, to encrypt (add a cipher to, for protection)
Conjugation
Conjugation of chiffrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chiffrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chiffrant /ʃi.fʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chiffré /ʃi.fʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chiffre /ʃifʁ/ |
chiffres /ʃifʁ/ |
chiffre /ʃifʁ/ |
chiffrons /ʃi.fʁɔ̃/ |
chiffrez /ʃi.fʁe/ |
chiffrent /ʃifʁ/ |
| imperfect | chiffrais /ʃi.fʁɛ/ |
chiffrais /ʃi.fʁɛ/ |
chiffrait /ʃi.fʁɛ/ |
chiffrions /ʃi.fʁi.jɔ̃/ |
chiffriez /ʃi.fʁi.je/ |
chiffraient /ʃi.fʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chiffrai /ʃi.fʁe/ |
chiffras /ʃi.fʁa/ |
chiffra /ʃi.fʁa/ |
chiffrâmes /ʃi.fʁam/ |
chiffrâtes /ʃi.fʁat/ |
chiffrèrent /ʃi.fʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | chiffrerai /ʃi.fʁə.ʁe/ |
chiffreras /ʃi.fʁə.ʁa/ |
chiffrera /ʃi.fʁə.ʁa/ |
chiffrerons /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
chiffrerez /ʃi.fʁə.ʁe/ |
chiffreront /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chiffrerais /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɛ/ |
chiffrerais /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɛ/ |
chiffrerait /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɛ/ |
chiffrerions /ʃi.fʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chiffreriez /ʃi.fʁə.ʁje/ |
chiffreraient /ʃi.fʁə.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 | chiffre /ʃifʁ/ |
chiffres /ʃifʁ/ |
chiffre /ʃifʁ/ |
chiffrions /ʃi.fʁi.jɔ̃/ |
chiffriez /ʃi.fʁi.je/ |
chiffrent /ʃifʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | chiffrasse /ʃi.fʁas/ |
chiffrasses /ʃi.fʁas/ |
chiffrât /ʃi.fʁa/ |
chiffrassions /ʃi.fʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
chiffrassiez /ʃi.fʁa.sje/ |
chiffrassent /ʃi.fʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chiffre /ʃifʁ/ |
— | chiffrons /ʃi.fʁɔ̃/ |
chiffrez /ʃi.fʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “chiffrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.