tchatcher
French
Etymology
tchatche + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃat.ʃe/
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Verb
tchatcher
- to chat
- Synonym: discuter
- On a tchatché toute la soirée dans un bar à tapas.
- We chatted all night at a tapas bar.
Conjugation
Conjugation of tchatcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | tchatchant /tʃat.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | tchatché /tʃat.ʃe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | tchatcher | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | tchatchant /tʃat.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ | tchatches /tʃatʃ/ | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ | tchatchons /tʃat.ʃɔ̃/ | tchatchez /tʃat.ʃe/ | tchatchent /tʃatʃ/ |
| imperfect | tchatchais /tʃat.ʃɛ/ | tchatchais /tʃat.ʃɛ/ | tchatchait /tʃat.ʃɛ/ | tchatchions /tʃat.ʃjɔ̃/ | tchatchiez /tʃat.ʃje/ | tchatchaient /tʃat.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tchatchai /tʃat.ʃe/ | tchatchas /tʃat.ʃa/ | tchatcha /tʃat.ʃa/ | tchatchâmes /tʃat.ʃam/ | tchatchâtes /tʃat.ʃat/ | tchatchèrent /tʃat.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | tchatcherai /tʃat.ʃə.ʁe/ | tchatcheras /tʃat.ʃə.ʁa/ | tchatchera /tʃat.ʃə.ʁa/ | tchatcherons /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | tchatcherez /tʃat.ʃə.ʁe/ | tchatcheront /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tchatcherais /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ | tchatcherais /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ | tchatcherait /tʃat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ | tchatcherions /tʃat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tchatcheriez /tʃat.ʃə.ʁje/ | tchatcheraient /tʃat.ʃə.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 | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ | tchatches /tʃatʃ/ | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ | tchatchions /tʃat.ʃjɔ̃/ | tchatchiez /tʃat.ʃje/ | tchatchent /tʃatʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | tchatchasse /tʃat.ʃas/ | tchatchasses /tʃat.ʃas/ | tchatchât /tʃat.ʃa/ | tchatchassions /tʃat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ | tchatchassiez /tʃat.ʃa.sje/ | tchatchassent /tʃat.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tchatche /tʃatʃ/ | — | tchatchons /tʃat.ʃɔ̃/ | tchatchez /tʃat.ʃe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
See also
- tchatter