chancir

French

Etymology

From Latin canescō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.siʁ/

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Verb

chancir

1. to rot, to mould

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of chancir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chancir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chancissant /ʃɑ̃.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chanci /ʃɑ̃.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancit /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancissons /ʃɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/	chancissez /ʃɑ̃.si.se/	chancissent /ʃɑ̃.sis/
	imperfect	chancissais /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/	chancissais /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/	chancissait /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/	chancissions /ʃɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	chancissiez /ʃɑ̃.si.sje/	chancissaient /ʃɑ̃.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancit /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancîmes /ʃɑ̃.sim/	chancîtes /ʃɑ̃.sit/	chancirent /ʃɑ̃.siʁ/
	future	chancirai /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁe/	chanciras /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁa/	chancira /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁa/	chancirons /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/	chancirez /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁe/	chanciront /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chancirais /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	chancirais /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	chancirait /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	chancirions /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/	chanciriez /ʃɑ̃.si.ʁje/	chanciraient /ʃɑ̃.si.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	chancisse /ʃɑ̃.sis/	chancisses /ʃɑ̃.sis/	chancisse /ʃɑ̃.sis/	chancissions /ʃɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	chancissiez /ʃɑ̃.si.sje/	chancissent /ʃɑ̃.sis/
	imperfect2	chancisse /ʃɑ̃.sis/	chancisses /ʃɑ̃.sis/	chancît /ʃɑ̃.si/	chancissions /ʃɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	chancissiez /ʃɑ̃.si.sje/	chancissent /ʃɑ̃.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chancis /ʃɑ̃.si/	—	chancissons /ʃɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/	chancissez /ʃɑ̃.si.se/	—
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).

Further reading

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