châtier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chastier, castier inherited from Latin castīgāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.tje/ ~ /ʃɑ.tje/

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Verb

châtier

1. (transitive) to chastise, punish, castigate, smite

Conjugation

Conjugation of châtier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	châtier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	châtiant /ʃa.tjɑ̃/ or /ʃɑ.tjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		châtié /ʃa.tje/ or /ʃɑ.tje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	châtie /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	châties /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	châtie /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	châtions /ʃa.tjɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.tjɔ̃/	châtiez /ʃa.tje/ or /ʃɑ.tje/	châtient /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/
	imperfect	châtiais /ʃa.tjɛ/ or /ʃɑ.tjɛ/	châtiais /ʃa.tjɛ/ or /ʃɑ.tjɛ/	châtiait /ʃa.tjɛ/ or /ʃɑ.tjɛ/	châtiions /ʃa.ti.jɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.ti.jɔ̃/	châtiiez /ʃa.ti.je/ or /ʃɑ.ti.je/	châtiaient /ʃa.tjɛ/ or /ʃɑ.tjɛ/
	past historic2	châtiai /ʃa.tje/ or /ʃɑ.tje/	châtias /ʃa.tja/ or /ʃɑ.tja/	châtia /ʃa.tja/ or /ʃɑ.tja/	châtiâmes /ʃa.tjam/ or /ʃɑ.tjam/	châtiâtes /ʃa.tjat/ or /ʃɑ.tjat/	châtièrent /ʃa.tjɛʁ/ or /ʃɑ.tjɛʁ/
	future	châtierai /ʃa.ti.ʁe/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁe/	châtieras /ʃa.ti.ʁa/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁa/	châtiera /ʃa.ti.ʁa/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁa/	châtierons /ʃa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	châtierez /ʃa.ti.ʁe/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁe/	châtieront /ʃa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	châtierais /ʃa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	châtierais /ʃa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	châtierait /ʃa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	châtierions /ʃa.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	châtieriez /ʃa.ti.ʁje/ or /ʃɑ.ti.ʁje/	châtieraient /ʃa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʃɑ.ti.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	châtie /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	châties /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	châtie /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	châtiions /ʃa.ti.jɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.ti.jɔ̃/	châtiiez /ʃa.ti.je/ or /ʃɑ.ti.je/	châtient /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/
	imperfect2	châtiasse /ʃa.tjas/ or /ʃɑ.tjas/	châtiasses /ʃa.tjas/ or /ʃɑ.tjas/	châtiât /ʃa.tja/ or /ʃɑ.tja/	châtiassions /ʃa.tja.sjɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.tja.sjɔ̃/	châtiassiez /ʃa.tja.sje/ or /ʃɑ.tja.sje/	châtiassent /ʃa.tjas/ or /ʃɑ.tjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	châtie /ʃa.ti/ or /ʃɑ.ti/	—	châtions /ʃa.tjɔ̃/ or /ʃɑ.tjɔ̃/	châtiez /ʃa.tje/ or /ʃɑ.tje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• qui aime bien châtie bien

Related terms

• châtiment
• chaste

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• charité
• cithare