chater

French

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Verb

chater

1. (Internet) alternative form of tchatter

Conjugation

Conjugation of chater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chatant /ʃa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chaté /ʃa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chate /ʃat/	chates /ʃat/	chate /ʃat/	chatons /ʃa.tɔ̃/	chatez /ʃa.te/	chatent /ʃat/
	imperfect	chatais /ʃa.tɛ/	chatais /ʃa.tɛ/	chatait /ʃa.tɛ/	chations /ʃa.tjɔ̃/	chatiez /ʃa.tje/	chataient /ʃa.tɛ/
	past historic2	chatai /ʃa.te/	chatas /ʃa.ta/	chata /ʃa.ta/	chatâmes /ʃa.tam/	chatâtes /ʃa.tat/	chatèrent /ʃa.tɛʁ/
	future	chaterai /ʃa.tʁe/	chateras /ʃa.tʁa/	chatera /ʃa.tʁa/	chaterons /ʃa.tʁɔ̃/	chaterez /ʃa.tʁe/	chateront /ʃa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chaterais /ʃa.tʁɛ/	chaterais /ʃa.tʁɛ/	chaterait /ʃa.tʁɛ/	chaterions /ʃa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	chateriez /ʃa.tə.ʁje/	chateraient /ʃa.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	chate /ʃat/	chates /ʃat/	chate /ʃat/	chations /ʃa.tjɔ̃/	chatiez /ʃa.tje/	chatent /ʃat/
	imperfect2	chatasse /ʃa.tas/	chatasses /ʃa.tas/	chatât /ʃa.ta/	chatassions /ʃa.ta.sjɔ̃/	chatassiez /ʃa.ta.sje/	chatassent /ʃa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chate /ʃat/	—	chatons /ʃa.tɔ̃/	chatez /ʃa.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).