Compare French chauffoir, a kind of stove, from chauffer (“to heat”). See chafe.
chauffer (plural chauffers)
Misspelling of chauffeur
chauffer (plural chauffers)
chauffer (third-person singular simple present chauffers, present participle chauffering, simple past and past participle chauffered)
Inherited from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, chaufer, from Vulgar Latin *cal(e)fāre, from Latin calfacere or calefacere. Compare Occitan caufar, calfar, Catalan calfar.
chauffer
| infinitive | simple | chauffer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
chauffer
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | ||