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checker (plural checkers)
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From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.
checker (plural checkers)
checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle checkered)
Alteration of chequer.
checker (plural checkers)
checker
infinitive | simple | checker | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | checkant /tʃɛ.kɑ̃/ or /tʃe.kɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | checké /tʃɛ.ke/ or /tʃe.ke/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkes /tʃɛk/ |
checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkons /tʃɛ.kɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kɔ̃/ |
checkez /tʃɛ.ke/ or /tʃe.ke/ |
checkent /tʃɛk/ |
imperfect | checkais /tʃɛ.kɛ/ or /tʃe.kɛ/ |
checkais /tʃɛ.kɛ/ or /tʃe.kɛ/ |
checkait /tʃɛ.kɛ/ or /tʃe.kɛ/ |
checkions /tʃɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kjɔ̃/ |
checkiez /tʃɛ.kje/ or /tʃe.kje/ |
checkaient /tʃɛ.kɛ/ or /tʃe.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | checkai /tʃɛ.ke/ or /tʃe.ke/ |
checkas /tʃɛ.ka/ or /tʃe.ka/ |
checka /tʃɛ.ka/ or /tʃe.ka/ |
checkâmes /tʃɛ.kam/ or /tʃe.kam/ |
checkâtes /tʃɛ.kat/ or /tʃe.kat/ |
checkèrent /tʃɛ.kɛʁ/ or /tʃe.kɛʁ/ | |
future | checkerai /tʃɛ.kʁe/ or /tʃe.kʁe/ |
checkeras /tʃɛ.kʁa/ or /tʃe.kʁa/ |
checkera /tʃɛ.kʁa/ or /tʃe.kʁa/ |
checkerons /tʃɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kʁɔ̃/ |
checkerez /tʃɛ.kʁe/ or /tʃe.kʁe/ |
checkeront /tʃɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | checkerais /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ or /tʃe.kʁɛ/ |
checkerais /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ or /tʃe.kʁɛ/ |
checkerait /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ or /tʃe.kʁɛ/ |
checkerions /tʃɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
checkeriez /tʃɛ.kə.ʁje/ or /tʃe.kə.ʁje/ |
checkeraient /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ or /tʃe.kʁɛ/ | |
(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 | checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkes /tʃɛk/ |
checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkions /tʃɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kjɔ̃/ |
checkiez /tʃɛ.kje/ or /tʃe.kje/ |
checkent /tʃɛk/ |
imperfect2 | checkasse /tʃɛ.kas/ or /tʃe.kas/ |
checkasses /tʃɛ.kas/ or /tʃe.kas/ |
checkât /tʃɛ.ka/ or /tʃe.ka/ |
checkassions /tʃɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ or /tʃe.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
checkassiez /tʃɛ.ka.sje/ or /tʃe.ka.sje/ |
checkassent /tʃɛ.kas/ or /tʃe.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | checke /tʃɛk/ |
— | checkons /tʃɛ.kɔ̃/ or /tʃe.kɔ̃/ |
checkez /tʃɛ.ke/ or /tʃe.ke/ |
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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). |