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
- (ambitransitive) 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
Further reading
- “chavirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.