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tchater

French, verb/tʃa.te/

tchater is a French verb meaning “alternative form of tchatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique du verbe chater”.

What does tchater mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    alternative form of tchatter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Variante orthographique du verbe chater.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of tchater

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • tchatant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • tchaté participle past
  • tchate first-person indicative present
  • tchates indicative present second-person
  • tchatons first-person indicative plural
  • tchatez indicative plural present
  • tchatent indicative plural present
  • tchatais first-person imperfect indicative
  • tchatait imperfect indicative singular
  • tchations first-person imperfect indicative
  • tchatiez imperfect indicative plural
  • tchataient imperfect indicative plural
  • tchatai first-person historic indicative
  • tchatas historic indicative past
  • tchata historic indicative past
  • tchatâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tchater?

  • /tʃa.te/
  • \tʃa.te\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is tchater in French?

tchater appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).