chuinter
French
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɥɛ̃.te/
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Verb
chuinter
- (intransitive, of an owl) to hoot, screech
- (intransitive, of a machine) to buzz, whirr, whoosh
- (intransitive, of a door) to creak
- (intransitive) to swish
- (intransitive, of tires) to hiss
- (intransitive) to pronounce the phoneme s as ʃ, often seen as a speech defect or regionalism. Can be compared to lisping in the English language.
Conjugation
Conjugation of chuinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chuinter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chuintant /ʃɥɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chuinté /ʃɥɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | chuinte /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | chuintes /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | chuinte /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | chuintons /ʃɥɛ̃.tɔ̃/ | chuintez /ʃɥɛ̃.te/ | chuintent /ʃɥɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | chuintais /ʃɥɛ̃.tɛ/ | chuintais /ʃɥɛ̃.tɛ/ | chuintait /ʃɥɛ̃.tɛ/ | chuintions /ʃɥɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ | chuintiez /ʃɥɛ̃.tje/ | chuintaient /ʃɥɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chuintai /ʃɥɛ̃.te/ | chuintas /ʃɥɛ̃.ta/ | chuinta /ʃɥɛ̃.ta/ | chuintâmes /ʃɥɛ̃.tam/ | chuintâtes /ʃɥɛ̃.tat/ | chuintèrent /ʃɥɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | chuinterai /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁe/ | chuinteras /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁa/ | chuintera /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁa/ | chuinterons /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | chuinterez /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁe/ | chuinteront /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chuinterais /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | chuinterais /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | chuinterait /ʃɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | chuinterions /ʃɥɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | chuinteriez /ʃɥɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ | chuinteraient /ʃɥɛ̃.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 | chuinte /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | chuintes /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | chuinte /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | chuintions /ʃɥɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ | chuintiez /ʃɥɛ̃.tje/ | chuintent /ʃɥɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | chuintasse /ʃɥɛ̃.tas/ | chuintasses /ʃɥɛ̃.tas/ | chuintât /ʃɥɛ̃.ta/ | chuintassions /ʃɥɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | chuintassiez /ʃɥɛ̃.ta.sje/ | chuintassent /ʃɥɛ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chuinte /ʃɥɛ̃t/ | — | chuintons /ʃɥɛ̃.tɔ̃/ | chuintez /ʃɥɛ̃.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
- chuintement
Further reading
- “chuinter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.