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Well the simple past tense / 3rd person of "chier" is precisely "chia", spelled exactly like that. The herb/plant "chia" always sounds a bit weird to my ears be
by TacticalCoder 5y ago
Well the simple past tense / 3rd person of "chier" is precisely "chia", spelled exactly like that. The herb/plant "chia" always sounds a bit weird to my ears because it makes me think of the verb tense... "Il chia" / "He shat". So GP is totally correct.
- littlestymaar 5y agoGP is maybe “technically” correct, but given that «chier» is a slang verb mostly used orally while passé simple is almost never used orally and never in casual context, which means that you'll never use that tense on this verb in practice. “He shat” will 99.99% of the time be translated to «il a chié» (passé composé).
- graeme 5y agoThanks. I’ve never in my life heard “il chia”. And you wouldn’t formally write something so informal. Anyone curious can verify that google translate doesn’t even understand “il chia” and google translate is quite good on French.
- fmajid 5y agoIt's precisely the juxtaposition of high grammar and low slang that makes it so humorous. Someone cares enough to have compiled the conjugation: https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/chier.php https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/chier.php and it's a really old word, used frequently by Rabelais, for instance.