chauffer
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Compare French chauffoir a kind of stove, from chauffer (“to heat”). See chafe.
Alternative forms
Noun
chauffer (plural chauffers)
- A small, portable stove
- A chafing dish
- (chemistry) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Etymology 2
Misspelling of chauffeur
Noun
chauffer (plural chauffers)
- Misspelling of chauffeur.
Verb
chauffer (third-person singular simple present chauffers, present participle chauffering, simple past and past participle chauffered)
- Misspelling of chauffeur.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chauffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
From Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, chaufer, from Vulgar Latin *cal(e)fāre, from Latin calfacere or calefacere, present active infinitive of calefaciō. Compare Occitan caufar, calfar, Catalan calfar.
Pronunciation
Verb
chauffer
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | chauffer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | chauffant /ʃo.fɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | chauffé /ʃo.fe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | chauffe /ʃof/ |
chauffes /ʃof/ |
chauffe /ʃof/ |
chauffons /ʃo.fɔ̃/ |
chauffez /ʃo.fe/ |
chauffent /ʃof/ |
imperfect | chauffais /ʃo.fɛ/ |
chauffais /ʃo.fɛ/ |
chauffait /ʃo.fɛ/ |
chauffions /ʃo.fjɔ̃/ |
chauffiez /ʃo.fje/ |
chauffaient /ʃo.fɛ/ | |
past historic2 | chauffai /ʃo.fe/ |
chauffas /ʃo.fa/ |
chauffa /ʃo.fa/ |
chauffâmes /ʃo.fam/ |
chauffâtes /ʃo.fat/ |
chauffèrent /ʃo.fɛʁ/ | |
future | chaufferai /ʃo.fʁe/ |
chaufferas /ʃo.fʁa/ |
chauffera /ʃo.fʁa/ |
chaufferons /ʃo.fʁɔ̃/ |
chaufferez /ʃo.fʁe/ |
chaufferont /ʃo.fʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | chaufferais /ʃo.fʁɛ/ |
chaufferais /ʃo.fʁɛ/ |
chaufferait /ʃo.fʁɛ/ |
chaufferions /ʃo.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chaufferiez /ʃo.fə.ʁje/ |
chaufferaient /ʃo.fʁɛ/ | |
(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 | chauffe /ʃof/ |
chauffes /ʃof/ |
chauffe /ʃof/ |
chauffions /ʃo.fjɔ̃/ |
chauffiez /ʃo.fje/ |
chauffent /ʃof/ |
imperfect2 | chauffasse /ʃo.fas/ |
chauffasses /ʃo.fas/ |
chauffât /ʃo.fa/ |
chauffassions /ʃo.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
chauffassiez /ʃo.fa.sje/ |
chauffassent /ʃo.fas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | chauffe /ʃof/ |
— | chauffons /ʃo.fɔ̃/ |
chauffez /ʃo.fe/ |
— | |
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). |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chauffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Verb
chauffer
- Alternative form of chaufer
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ff, *-ffs, *-fft are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | chauffer | avoir chauffé | |||||
gerund | en chauffant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | chauffant | ||||||
past participle | chauffé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | chauf | chauffes | chauffe | chauffons | chauffez | chauffent |
imperfect | chauffoie, chauffeie, chauffoe, chauffeve | chauffoies, chauffeies, chauffoes, chauffeves | chauffoit, chauffeit, chauffot, chauffeve | chauffiiens, chauffiens | chauffiiez, chauffiez | chauffoient, chauffeient, chauffoent, chauffevent | |
preterite | chauffai | chauffas | chauffa | chauffames | chauffastes | chaufferent | |
future | chaufferai | chaufferas | chauffera | chaufferons | chaufferoiz, chauffereiz, chaufferez | chaufferont | |
conditional | chaufferoie, chauffereie | chaufferoies, chauffereies | chaufferoit, chauffereit | chaufferiiens, chaufferiens | chaufferiiez, chaufferiez | chaufferoient, chauffereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | chauf | chaus | chaut | chauffons | chauffez | chauffent |
imperfect | chauffasse | chauffasses | chauffast | chauffissons, chauffissiens | chauffissoiz, chauffissez, chauffissiez | chauffassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | chauffe | — | chauffons | chauffez | — |
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