cheminer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cammīnāre. By surface analysis, chemin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.mi.ne/

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Verb

cheminer

1. to walk on, to keep walking (especially on a long and regular or a painful walk)

   Synonym: faire son chemin

Conjugation

Conjugation of cheminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cheminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cheminant /ʃə.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cheminé /ʃə.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chemine /ʃə.min/	chemines /ʃə.min/	chemine /ʃə.min/	cheminons /ʃə.mi.nɔ̃/	cheminez /ʃə.mi.ne/	cheminent /ʃə.min/
	imperfect	cheminais /ʃə.mi.nɛ/	cheminais /ʃə.mi.nɛ/	cheminait /ʃə.mi.nɛ/	cheminions /ʃə.mi.njɔ̃/	cheminiez /ʃə.mi.nje/	cheminaient /ʃə.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	cheminai /ʃə.mi.ne/	cheminas /ʃə.mi.na/	chemina /ʃə.mi.na/	cheminâmes /ʃə.mi.nam/	cheminâtes /ʃə.mi.nat/	cheminèrent /ʃə.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	cheminerai /ʃə.min.ʁe/	chemineras /ʃə.min.ʁa/	cheminera /ʃə.min.ʁa/	cheminerons /ʃə.min.ʁɔ̃/	cheminerez /ʃə.min.ʁe/	chemineront /ʃə.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cheminerais /ʃə.min.ʁɛ/	cheminerais /ʃə.min.ʁɛ/	cheminerait /ʃə.min.ʁɛ/	cheminerions /ʃə.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	chemineriez /ʃə.mi.nə.ʁje/	chemineraient /ʃə.min.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	chemine /ʃə.min/	chemines /ʃə.min/	chemine /ʃə.min/	cheminions /ʃə.mi.njɔ̃/	cheminiez /ʃə.mi.nje/	cheminent /ʃə.min/
	imperfect2	cheminasse /ʃə.mi.nas/	cheminasses /ʃə.mi.nas/	cheminât /ʃə.mi.na/	cheminassions /ʃə.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	cheminassiez /ʃə.mi.na.sje/	cheminassent /ʃə.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chemine /ʃə.min/	—	cheminons /ʃə.mi.nɔ̃/	cheminez /ʃə.mi.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• cheminement

Further reading

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