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chérir
chérir
See also: cherir
French
Verb
chérir
- (transitive) to cherish
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of chérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | chérir | avoir chéri | |||||
| gerund | en chérissant | en ayant chéri | |||||
| present participle | chérissant /ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | chéri /ʃe.ʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérit /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérissons /ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
chérissez /ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
chérissent /ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | chérissais /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
chérissais /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
chérissait /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
chérissions /ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
chérissiez /ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
chérissaient /ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérit /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérîmes /ʃe.ʁim/ |
chérîtes /ʃe.ʁit/ |
chérirent /ʃe.ʁiʁ/ |
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| future | chérirai /ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
chériras /ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
chérira /ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
chérirons /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
chérirez /ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
chériront /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | chérirais /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
chérirais /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
chérirait /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
chéririons /ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chéririez /ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
chériraient /ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | chérisse /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérisses /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérisse /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérissions /ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
chérissiez /ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
chérissent /ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect1 |
chérisse /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérisses /ʃe.ʁis/ |
chérît /ʃe.ʁi/ |
chérissions /ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
chérissiez /ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
chérissent /ʃe.ʁis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | chéris /ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | chérissons /ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
chérissez /ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
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