chinoiser

French

Etymology

From chinois +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwa.ze/

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Verb

chinoiser

1. to argue; to quibble; to squabble

Conjugation

Conjugation of chinoiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chinoiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chinoisant /ʃi.nwa.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chinoisé /ʃi.nwa.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chinoise /ʃi.nwaz/	chinoises /ʃi.nwaz/	chinoise /ʃi.nwaz/	chinoisons /ʃi.nwa.zɔ̃/	chinoisez /ʃi.nwa.ze/	chinoisent /ʃi.nwaz/
	imperfect	chinoisais /ʃi.nwa.zɛ/	chinoisais /ʃi.nwa.zɛ/	chinoisait /ʃi.nwa.zɛ/	chinoisions /ʃi.nwa.zjɔ̃/	chinoisiez /ʃi.nwa.zje/	chinoisaient /ʃi.nwa.zɛ/
	past historic2	chinoisai /ʃi.nwa.ze/	chinoisas /ʃi.nwa.za/	chinoisa /ʃi.nwa.za/	chinoisâmes /ʃi.nwa.zam/	chinoisâtes /ʃi.nwa.zat/	chinoisèrent /ʃi.nwa.zɛʁ/
	future	chinoiserai /ʃi.nwaz.ʁe/	chinoiseras /ʃi.nwaz.ʁa/	chinoisera /ʃi.nwaz.ʁa/	chinoiserons /ʃi.nwaz.ʁɔ̃/	chinoiserez /ʃi.nwaz.ʁe/	chinoiseront /ʃi.nwaz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chinoiserais /ʃi.nwaz.ʁɛ/	chinoiserais /ʃi.nwaz.ʁɛ/	chinoiserait /ʃi.nwaz.ʁɛ/	chinoiserions /ʃi.nwa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	chinoiseriez /ʃi.nwa.zə.ʁje/	chinoiseraient /ʃi.nwaz.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	chinoise /ʃi.nwaz/	chinoises /ʃi.nwaz/	chinoise /ʃi.nwaz/	chinoisions /ʃi.nwa.zjɔ̃/	chinoisiez /ʃi.nwa.zje/	chinoisent /ʃi.nwaz/
	imperfect2	chinoisasse /ʃi.nwa.zas/	chinoisasses /ʃi.nwa.zas/	chinoisât /ʃi.nwa.za/	chinoisassions /ʃi.nwa.za.sjɔ̃/	chinoisassiez /ʃi.nwa.za.sje/	chinoisassent /ʃi.nwa.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chinoise /ʃi.nwaz/	—	chinoisons /ʃi.nwa.zɔ̃/	chinoisez /ʃi.nwa.ze/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• chierions