chagriner

French

Etymology

From a compound form of grigner, maybe with chat (cf. older chagrigner).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ɡʁi.ne/

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Verb

chagriner

1. (transitive) to bother, worry
2. (transitive) to grieve
3. (transitive) to upset

Conjugation

Conjugation of chagriner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chagriner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chagrinant /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chagriné /ʃa.ɡʁi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chagrine /ʃa.ɡʁin/	chagrines /ʃa.ɡʁin/	chagrine /ʃa.ɡʁin/	chagrinons /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɔ̃/	chagrinez /ʃa.ɡʁi.ne/	chagrinent /ʃa.ɡʁin/
	imperfect	chagrinais /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɛ/	chagrinais /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɛ/	chagrinait /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɛ/	chagrinions /ʃa.ɡʁi.njɔ̃/	chagriniez /ʃa.ɡʁi.nje/	chagrinaient /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɛ/
	past historic2	chagrinai /ʃa.ɡʁi.ne/	chagrinas /ʃa.ɡʁi.na/	chagrina /ʃa.ɡʁi.na/	chagrinâmes /ʃa.ɡʁi.nam/	chagrinâtes /ʃa.ɡʁi.nat/	chagrinèrent /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɛʁ/
	future	chagrinerai /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁe/	chagrineras /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁa/	chagrinera /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁa/	chagrinerons /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁɔ̃/	chagrinerez /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁe/	chagrineront /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chagrinerais /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁɛ/	chagrinerais /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁɛ/	chagrinerait /ʃa.ɡʁin.ʁɛ/	chagrinerions /ʃa.ɡʁi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	chagrineriez /ʃa.ɡʁi.nə.ʁje/	chagrineraient /ʃa.ɡʁin.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	chagrine /ʃa.ɡʁin/	chagrines /ʃa.ɡʁin/	chagrine /ʃa.ɡʁin/	chagrinions /ʃa.ɡʁi.njɔ̃/	chagriniez /ʃa.ɡʁi.nje/	chagrinent /ʃa.ɡʁin/
	imperfect2	chagrinasse /ʃa.ɡʁi.nas/	chagrinasses /ʃa.ɡʁi.nas/	chagrinât /ʃa.ɡʁi.na/	chagrinassions /ʃa.ɡʁi.na.sjɔ̃/	chagrinassiez /ʃa.ɡʁi.na.sje/	chagrinassent /ʃa.ɡʁi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chagrine /ʃa.ɡʁin/	—	chagrinons /ʃa.ɡʁi.nɔ̃/	chagrinez /ʃa.ɡʁi.ne/	—
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).

Descendants

• → Piedmontese: sagriné

Further reading

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