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chasser
chasser
French
Verb
chasser
Derived terms
Conjugation
  Conjugation of chasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | chasser | avoir chassé | |||||
| gerund | en chassant | en ayant chassé | |||||
| present participle |  chassant /ʃa.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  chassé /ʃa.se/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  chasse /ʃas/  | 
 chasses /ʃas/  | 
 chasse /ʃas/  | 
 chassons /ʃa.sɔ̃/  | 
 chassez /ʃa.se/  | 
 chassent /ʃas/  | 
| imperfect |  chassais /ʃa.sɛ/  | 
 chassais /ʃa.sɛ/  | 
 chassait /ʃa.sɛ/  | 
 chassions /ʃa.sjɔ̃/  | 
 chassiez /ʃa.sje/  | 
 chassaient /ʃa.sɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  chassai /ʃa.se/  | 
chassas /ʃa.sa/  | 
chassa /ʃa.sa/  | 
chassâmes /ʃa.sam/  | 
chassâtes /ʃa.sat/  | 
chassèrent /ʃa.sɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  chasserai /ʃa.sʁe/  | 
 chasseras /ʃa.sʁa/  | 
 chassera /ʃa.sʁa/  | 
 chasserons /ʃa.sʁɔ̃/  | 
 chasserez /ʃa.sʁe/  | 
 chasseront /ʃa.sʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  chasserais /ʃa.sʁɛ/  | 
 chasserais /ʃa.sʁɛ/  | 
 chasserait /ʃa.sʁɛ/  | 
 chasserions /ʃa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 chasseriez /ʃa.sə.ʁje/  | 
 chasseraient /ʃa.sʁɛ/  | 
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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 |  chasse /ʃas/  | 
 chasses /ʃas/  | 
 chasse /ʃas/  | 
 chassions /ʃa.sjɔ̃/  | 
 chassiez /ʃa.sje/  | 
 chassent /ʃas/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
chassasse /ʃa.sas/  | 
chassasses /ʃa.sas/  | 
chassât /ʃa.sa/  | 
chassassions /ʃa.sa.sjɔ̃/  | 
chassassiez /ʃa.sa.sje/  | 
chassassent /ʃa.sas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  chasse /ʃas/  | 
— |  chassons /ʃa.sɔ̃/  | 
 chassez /ʃa.se/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||