chuter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃy.te/
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Verb
chuter
- to fall, to drop
- (figurative) to drop, to decrease (of numbers)
- Synonym: baisser
- 2021 April 15, “En Provence, voler demeure un rêve d'enfants”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 1:
- À l’aéroclub de Vinon Manosque, confirme ainsi son président Jacques Tomsin, le nombre d’heures de vol a chuté de 1800 en 2019 à 1400 en 2020.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of chuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chutant /ʃy.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chuté /ʃy.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chute /ʃyt/ |
chutes /ʃyt/ |
chute /ʃyt/ |
chutons /ʃy.tɔ̃/ |
chutez /ʃy.te/ |
chutent /ʃyt/ |
| imperfect | chutais /ʃy.tɛ/ |
chutais /ʃy.tɛ/ |
chutait /ʃy.tɛ/ |
chutions /ʃy.tjɔ̃/ |
chutiez /ʃy.tje/ |
chutaient /ʃy.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chutai /ʃy.te/ |
chutas /ʃy.ta/ |
chuta /ʃy.ta/ |
chutâmes /ʃy.tam/ |
chutâtes /ʃy.tat/ |
chutèrent /ʃy.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | chuterai /ʃy.tʁe/ |
chuteras /ʃy.tʁa/ |
chutera /ʃy.tʁa/ |
chuterons /ʃy.tʁɔ̃/ |
chuterez /ʃy.tʁe/ |
chuteront /ʃy.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chuterais /ʃy.tʁɛ/ |
chuterais /ʃy.tʁɛ/ |
chuterait /ʃy.tʁɛ/ |
chuterions /ʃy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chuteriez /ʃy.tə.ʁje/ |
chuteraient /ʃy.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 | chute /ʃyt/ |
chutes /ʃyt/ |
chute /ʃyt/ |
chutions /ʃy.tjɔ̃/ |
chutiez /ʃy.tje/ |
chutent /ʃyt/ |
| imperfect2 | chutasse /ʃy.tas/ |
chutasses /ʃy.tas/ |
chutât /ʃy.ta/ |
chutassions /ʃy.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
chutassiez /ʃy.ta.sje/ |
chutassent /ʃy.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chute /ʃyt/ |
— | chutons /ʃy.tɔ̃/ |
chutez /ʃy.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “chuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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