chavirer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan cap-virar, capvirar (cf. cap and virer).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.vi.ʁe/
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Verb
chavirer
- (transitive, intransitive) to capsize
- (intransitive) to overturn, keel over, tip over (of objects etc.)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to roll (of eyes); to reel, spin (of room etc.); to turn over (of heart)
- (transitive) to bowl over, shatter (someone)
Conjugation
Conjugation of chavirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chavirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chavirant /ʃa.vi.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chaviré /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ | chavires /ʃa.viʁ/ | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ | chavirons /ʃa.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | chavirez /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ | chavirent /ʃa.viʁ/ |
| imperfect | chavirais /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/ | chavirais /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/ | chavirait /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/ | chavirions /ʃa.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ | chaviriez /ʃa.vi.ʁje/ | chaviraient /ʃa.vi.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chavirai /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ | chaviras /ʃa.vi.ʁa/ | chavira /ʃa.vi.ʁa/ | chavirâmes /ʃa.vi.ʁam/ | chavirâtes /ʃa.vi.ʁat/ | chavirèrent /ʃa.vi.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | chavirerai /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁe/ | chavireras /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁa/ | chavirera /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁa/ | chavirerons /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | chavirerez /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁe/ | chavireront /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chavirerais /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | chavirerais /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | chavirerait /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | chavirerions /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | chavireriez /ʃa.vi.ʁə.ʁje/ | chavireraient /ʃa.vi.ʁə.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 | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ | chavires /ʃa.viʁ/ | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ | chavirions /ʃa.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ | chaviriez /ʃa.vi.ʁje/ | chavirent /ʃa.viʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | chavirasse /ʃa.vi.ʁas/ | chavirasses /ʃa.vi.ʁas/ | chavirât /ʃa.vi.ʁa/ | chavirassions /ʃa.vi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | chavirassiez /ʃa.vi.ʁa.sje/ | chavirassent /ʃa.vi.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ | — | chavirons /ʃa.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | chavirez /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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
- chavirage
Further reading
- “chavirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- archiver