chiffrer

French

Etymology

From chiffre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.fʁe/

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Verb

chiffrer

1. (transitive) to number (to add a number to)
2. (intransitive) to add up (accumulate)
3. (transitive) to cipher, to encipher, to encrypt (add a cipher to, for protection)

Conjugation

Conjugation of chiffrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chiffrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chiffrant /ʃi.fʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chiffré /ʃi.fʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chiffre /ʃifʁ/	chiffres /ʃifʁ/	chiffre /ʃifʁ/	chiffrons /ʃi.fʁɔ̃/	chiffrez /ʃi.fʁe/	chiffrent /ʃifʁ/
	imperfect	chiffrais /ʃi.fʁɛ/	chiffrais /ʃi.fʁɛ/	chiffrait /ʃi.fʁɛ/	chiffrions /ʃi.fʁi.jɔ̃/	chiffriez /ʃi.fʁi.je/	chiffraient /ʃi.fʁɛ/
	past historic2	chiffrai /ʃi.fʁe/	chiffras /ʃi.fʁa/	chiffra /ʃi.fʁa/	chiffrâmes /ʃi.fʁam/	chiffrâtes /ʃi.fʁat/	chiffrèrent /ʃi.fʁɛʁ/
	future	chiffrerai /ʃi.fʁə.ʁe/	chiffreras /ʃi.fʁə.ʁa/	chiffrera /ʃi.fʁə.ʁa/	chiffrerons /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/	chiffrerez /ʃi.fʁə.ʁe/	chiffreront /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chiffrerais /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɛ/	chiffrerais /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɛ/	chiffrerait /ʃi.fʁə.ʁɛ/	chiffrerions /ʃi.fʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	chiffreriez /ʃi.fʁə.ʁje/	chiffreraient /ʃi.fʁə.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	chiffre /ʃifʁ/	chiffres /ʃifʁ/	chiffre /ʃifʁ/	chiffrions /ʃi.fʁi.jɔ̃/	chiffriez /ʃi.fʁi.je/	chiffrent /ʃifʁ/
	imperfect2	chiffrasse /ʃi.fʁas/	chiffrasses /ʃi.fʁas/	chiffrât /ʃi.fʁa/	chiffrassions /ʃi.fʁa.sjɔ̃/	chiffrassiez /ʃi.fʁa.sje/	chiffrassent /ʃi.fʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chiffre /ʃifʁ/	—	chiffrons /ʃi.fʁɔ̃/	chiffrez /ʃi.fʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• chiffrage

Further reading

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