cheminer
French
Etymology
From chemin + -er; compare Catalan caminar, Italian camminare, Spanish caminar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃə.mi.ne/
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Verb
cheminer
- to walk on, to keep walking (especially on a long and regular or a painful walk)
- Synonym: faire son chemin
Conjugation
Conjugation of cheminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | cheminer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | cheminant /ʃə.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | cheminé /ʃə.mi.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | chemine /ʃə.min/ | chemines /ʃə.min/ | chemine /ʃə.min/ | cheminons /ʃə.mi.nɔ̃/ | cheminez /ʃə.mi.ne/ | cheminent /ʃə.min/ |
imperfect | cheminais /ʃə.mi.nɛ/ | cheminais /ʃə.mi.nɛ/ | cheminait /ʃə.mi.nɛ/ | cheminions /ʃə.mi.njɔ̃/ | cheminiez /ʃə.mi.nje/ | cheminaient /ʃə.mi.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | cheminai /ʃə.mi.ne/ | cheminas /ʃə.mi.na/ | chemina /ʃə.mi.na/ | cheminâmes /ʃə.mi.nam/ | cheminâtes /ʃə.mi.nat/ | cheminèrent /ʃə.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
future | cheminerai /ʃə.min.ʁe/ | chemineras /ʃə.min.ʁa/ | cheminera /ʃə.min.ʁa/ | cheminerons /ʃə.min.ʁɔ̃/ | cheminerez /ʃə.min.ʁe/ | chemineront /ʃə.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | cheminerais /ʃə.min.ʁɛ/ | cheminerais /ʃə.min.ʁɛ/ | cheminerait /ʃə.min.ʁɛ/ | cheminerions /ʃə.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | chemineriez /ʃə.mi.nə.ʁje/ | chemineraient /ʃə.min.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 | chemine /ʃə.min/ | chemines /ʃə.min/ | chemine /ʃə.min/ | cheminions /ʃə.mi.njɔ̃/ | cheminiez /ʃə.mi.nje/ | cheminent /ʃə.min/ |
imperfect2 | cheminasse /ʃə.mi.nas/ | cheminasses /ʃə.mi.nas/ | cheminât /ʃə.mi.na/ | cheminassions /ʃə.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ | cheminassiez /ʃə.mi.na.sje/ | cheminassent /ʃə.mi.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | chemine /ʃə.min/ | — | cheminons /ʃə.mi.nɔ̃/ | cheminez /ʃə.mi.ne/ | — | |
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
- chemin
Further reading
- “cheminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.