chuter

French

Etymology

From Latin cadere (“to fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃy.te/

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Verb

chuter

1. to fall, to drop
2. (figurative) to drop, to decrease (of numbers)

   Synonym: baisser

   • 2021 April 15, “En Provence, voler demeure un rêve d'enfants”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 1:

     À l’aéroclub de Vinon Manosque, confirme ainsi son président Jacques Tomsin, le nombre d’heures de vol a chuté de 1800 en 2019 à 1400 en 2020.

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Conjugation

Conjugation of chuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chutant /ʃy.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chuté /ʃy.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chute /ʃyt/	chutes /ʃyt/	chute /ʃyt/	chutons /ʃy.tɔ̃/	chutez /ʃy.te/	chutent /ʃyt/
	imperfect	chutais /ʃy.tɛ/	chutais /ʃy.tɛ/	chutait /ʃy.tɛ/	chutions /ʃy.tjɔ̃/	chutiez /ʃy.tje/	chutaient /ʃy.tɛ/
	past historic2	chutai /ʃy.te/	chutas /ʃy.ta/	chuta /ʃy.ta/	chutâmes /ʃy.tam/	chutâtes /ʃy.tat/	chutèrent /ʃy.tɛʁ/
	future	chuterai /ʃy.tʁe/	chuteras /ʃy.tʁa/	chutera /ʃy.tʁa/	chuterons /ʃy.tʁɔ̃/	chuterez /ʃy.tʁe/	chuteront /ʃy.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chuterais /ʃy.tʁɛ/	chuterais /ʃy.tʁɛ/	chuterait /ʃy.tʁɛ/	chuterions /ʃy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	chuteriez /ʃy.tə.ʁje/	chuteraient /ʃy.tʁɛ/
(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	chute /ʃyt/	chutes /ʃyt/	chute /ʃyt/	chutions /ʃy.tjɔ̃/	chutiez /ʃy.tje/	chutent /ʃyt/
	imperfect2	chutasse /ʃy.tas/	chutasses /ʃy.tas/	chutât /ʃy.ta/	chutassions /ʃy.ta.sjɔ̃/	chutassiez /ʃy.ta.sje/	chutassent /ʃy.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chute /ʃyt/	—	chutons /ʃy.tɔ̃/	chutez /ʃy.te/	—
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

• chute

Further reading

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