chevaucher
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French chevauchier, from Old French chevauchier, from Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus (“nag, jade”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃə.vo.ʃe/
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Verb
chevaucher
- to straddle, be astride
- to span, sit/be across
- to ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging
- (pronominal) to overlap
Conjugation
Conjugation of chevaucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chevaucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chevauchant /ʃə.vo.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chevauché /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauches /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauchons /ʃə.vo.ʃɔ̃/ |
chevauchez /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ |
chevauchent /ʃə.voʃ/ |
| imperfect | chevauchais /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ |
chevauchais /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ |
chevauchait /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ |
chevauchions /ʃə.vo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
chevauchiez /ʃə.vo.ʃje/ |
chevauchaient /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chevauchai /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ |
chevauchas /ʃə.vo.ʃa/ |
chevaucha /ʃə.vo.ʃa/ |
chevauchâmes /ʃə.vo.ʃam/ |
chevauchâtes /ʃə.vo.ʃat/ |
chevauchèrent /ʃə.vo.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | chevaucherai /ʃə.voʃ.ʁe/ |
chevaucheras /ʃə.voʃ.ʁa/ |
chevauchera /ʃə.voʃ.ʁa/ |
chevaucherons /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
chevaucherez /ʃə.voʃ.ʁe/ |
chevaucheront /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chevaucherais /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/ |
chevaucherais /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/ |
chevaucherait /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/ |
chevaucherions /ʃə.vo.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chevaucheriez /ʃə.vo.ʃə.ʁje/ |
chevaucheraient /ʃə.voʃ.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 | chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauches /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
chevauchions /ʃə.vo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
chevauchiez /ʃə.vo.ʃje/ |
chevauchent /ʃə.voʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | chevauchasse /ʃə.vo.ʃas/ |
chevauchasses /ʃə.vo.ʃas/ |
chevauchât /ʃə.vo.ʃa/ |
chevauchassions /ʃə.vo.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
chevauchassiez /ʃə.vo.ʃa.sje/ |
chevauchassent /ʃə.vo.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/ |
— | chevauchons /ʃə.vo.ʃɔ̃/ |
chevauchez /ʃə.vo.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “chevaucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.