chevroter

French

Etymology

From chèvre +‎ -oter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.vʁɔ.te/

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Verb

chevroter

1. (intransitive, of the voice) to quaver
2. (ambitransitive) to bleat

Conjugation

Conjugation of chevroter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chevroter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chevrotant /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chevroté /ʃə.vʁɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chevrote /ʃə.vʁɔt/	chevrotes /ʃə.vʁɔt/	chevrote /ʃə.vʁɔt/	chevrotons /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɔ̃/	chevrotez /ʃə.vʁɔ.te/	chevrotent /ʃə.vʁɔt/
	imperfect	chevrotais /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɛ/	chevrotais /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɛ/	chevrotait /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɛ/	chevrotions /ʃə.vʁɔ.tjɔ̃/	chevrotiez /ʃə.vʁɔ.tje/	chevrotaient /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	chevrotai /ʃə.vʁɔ.te/	chevrotas /ʃə.vʁɔ.ta/	chevrota /ʃə.vʁɔ.ta/	chevrotâmes /ʃə.vʁɔ.tam/	chevrotâtes /ʃə.vʁɔ.tat/	chevrotèrent /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	chevroterai /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁe/	chevroteras /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁa/	chevrotera /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁa/	chevroterons /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/	chevroterez /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁe/	chevroteront /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chevroterais /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁɛ/	chevroterais /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁɛ/	chevroterait /ʃə.vʁɔ.tʁɛ/	chevroterions /ʃə.vʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	chevroteriez /ʃə.vʁɔ.tə.ʁje/	chevroteraient /ʃə.vʁɔ.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	chevrote /ʃə.vʁɔt/	chevrotes /ʃə.vʁɔt/	chevrote /ʃə.vʁɔt/	chevrotions /ʃə.vʁɔ.tjɔ̃/	chevrotiez /ʃə.vʁɔ.tje/	chevrotent /ʃə.vʁɔt/
	imperfect2	chevrotasse /ʃə.vʁɔ.tas/	chevrotasses /ʃə.vʁɔ.tas/	chevrotât /ʃə.vʁɔ.ta/	chevrotassions /ʃə.vʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	chevrotassiez /ʃə.vʁɔ.ta.sje/	chevrotassent /ʃə.vʁɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chevrote /ʃə.vʁɔt/	—	chevrotons /ʃə.vʁɔ.tɔ̃/	chevrotez /ʃə.vʁɔ.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).

Derived terms

• chevrotant

Further reading

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