chahuter

French

Etymology

chahut + -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.y.te/

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Verb

chahuter

1. (usually of children) to playfight, to horseplay, to mess around

Conjugation

Conjugation of chahuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chahuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chahutant /ʃa.y.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chahuté /ʃa.y.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chahute /ʃa.yt/	chahutes /ʃa.yt/	chahute /ʃa.yt/	chahutons /ʃa.y.tɔ̃/	chahutez /ʃa.y.te/	chahutent /ʃa.yt/
	imperfect	chahutais /ʃa.y.tɛ/	chahutais /ʃa.y.tɛ/	chahutait /ʃa.y.tɛ/	chahutions /ʃa.y.tjɔ̃/	chahutiez /ʃa.y.tje/	chahutaient /ʃa.y.tɛ/
	past historic2	chahutai /ʃa.y.te/	chahutas /ʃa.y.ta/	chahuta /ʃa.y.ta/	chahutâmes /ʃa.y.tam/	chahutâtes /ʃa.y.tat/	chahutèrent /ʃa.y.tɛʁ/
	future	chahuterai /ʃa.y.tʁe/	chahuteras /ʃa.y.tʁa/	chahutera /ʃa.y.tʁa/	chahuterons /ʃa.y.tʁɔ̃/	chahuterez /ʃa.y.tʁe/	chahuteront /ʃa.y.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chahuterais /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/	chahuterais /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/	chahuterait /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/	chahuterions /ʃa.y.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	chahuteriez /ʃa.y.tə.ʁje/	chahuteraient /ʃa.y.tʁɛ/
(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	chahute /ʃa.yt/	chahutes /ʃa.yt/	chahute /ʃa.yt/	chahutions /ʃa.y.tjɔ̃/	chahutiez /ʃa.y.tje/	chahutent /ʃa.yt/
	imperfect2	chahutasse /ʃa.y.tas/	chahutasses /ʃa.y.tas/	chahutât /ʃa.y.ta/	chahutassions /ʃa.y.ta.sjɔ̃/	chahutassiez /ʃa.y.ta.sje/	chahutassent /ʃa.y.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chahute /ʃa.yt/	—	chahutons /ʃa.y.tɔ̃/	chahutez /ʃa.y.te/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• chahut

Further reading

• “chahuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.