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chavirer
chavirer
French
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | chavirer | avoir chaviré | |||||
| gerund | en chavirant | en ayant chaviré | |||||
| present participle | chavirant /ʃa.vi.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | chaviré /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | chavirai /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ |
chaviras /ʃa.vi.ʁa/ |
chavira /ʃa.vi.ʁa/ |
chavirâmes /ʃa.vi.ʁam/ |
chavirâtes /ʃa.vi.ʁat/ |
chavirèrent /ʃa.vi.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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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 | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ |
chavires /ʃa.viʁ/ |
chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ |
chavirions /ʃa.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chaviriez /ʃa.vi.ʁje/ |
chavirent /ʃa.viʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | chavire /ʃa.viʁ/ |
— | chavirons /ʃa.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
chavirez /ʃa.vi.ʁe/ |
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