chevaucher

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French chevauchier, from Old French chevauchier, from Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus (“nag, jade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.vo.ʃe/

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Verb

chevaucher

1. to straddle, be astride
2. to span, sit/be across
3. to ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Charles, à la neige à la pluie, chevauchait par les chemins de traverse.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (pronominal) to overlap

Conjugation

Conjugation of chevaucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chevaucher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chevauchant /ʃə.vo.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chevauché /ʃə.vo.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/	chevauches /ʃə.voʃ/	chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/	chevauchons /ʃə.vo.ʃɔ̃/	chevauchez /ʃə.vo.ʃe/	chevauchent /ʃə.voʃ/
	imperfect	chevauchais /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/	chevauchais /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/	chevauchait /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/	chevauchions /ʃə.vo.ʃjɔ̃/	chevauchiez /ʃə.vo.ʃje/	chevauchaient /ʃə.vo.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	chevauchai /ʃə.vo.ʃe/	chevauchas /ʃə.vo.ʃa/	chevaucha /ʃə.vo.ʃa/	chevauchâmes /ʃə.vo.ʃam/	chevauchâtes /ʃə.vo.ʃat/	chevauchèrent /ʃə.vo.ʃɛʁ/
	future	chevaucherai /ʃə.voʃ.ʁe/	chevaucheras /ʃə.voʃ.ʁa/	chevauchera /ʃə.voʃ.ʁa/	chevaucherons /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɔ̃/	chevaucherez /ʃə.voʃ.ʁe/	chevaucheront /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chevaucherais /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/	chevaucherais /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/	chevaucherait /ʃə.voʃ.ʁɛ/	chevaucherions /ʃə.vo.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	chevaucheriez /ʃə.vo.ʃə.ʁje/	chevaucheraient /ʃə.voʃ.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	chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/	chevauches /ʃə.voʃ/	chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/	chevauchions /ʃə.vo.ʃjɔ̃/	chevauchiez /ʃə.vo.ʃje/	chevauchent /ʃə.voʃ/
	imperfect2	chevauchasse /ʃə.vo.ʃas/	chevauchasses /ʃə.vo.ʃas/	chevauchât /ʃə.vo.ʃa/	chevauchassions /ʃə.vo.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	chevauchassiez /ʃə.vo.ʃa.sje/	chevauchassent /ʃə.vo.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chevauche /ʃə.voʃ/	—	chevauchons /ʃə.vo.ʃɔ̃/	chevauchez /ʃə.vo.ʃe/	—
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

• enchevaucher
• cheval
• chevalier
• chevauchée

Further reading

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