cheminer
French
Etymology
From chemin + -er; compare Catalan caminar, Italian camminare, Spanish caminar.
Pronunciation
Verb
cheminer
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “cheminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.