enchifrener
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
enchifrener
- (archaic) to block up (a nose)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il enchifrène rather than *il enchifrene. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of enchifrener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | enchifrener | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | enchifrenant /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | enchifrené /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | enchifrènes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | enchifrenons /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɔ̃/ | enchifrenez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.ne/ | enchifrènent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ |
imperfect | enchifrenais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/ | enchifrenais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/ | enchifrenait /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/ | enchifrenions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.njɔ̃/ | enchifreniez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nje/ | enchifrenaient /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | enchifrenai /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.ne/ | enchifrenas /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na/ | enchifrena /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na/ | enchifrenâmes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nam/ | enchifrenâtes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nat/ | enchifrenèrent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛʁ/ | |
future | enchifrènerai /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁe/ | enchifrèneras /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁa/ | enchifrènera /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁa/ | enchifrènerons /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | enchifrènerez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁe/ | enchifrèneront /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | enchifrènerais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɛ/ | enchifrènerais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɛ/ | enchifrènerait /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɛ/ | enchifrènerions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | enchifrèneriez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁe.nə.ʁje/ | enchifrèneraient /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.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 | enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | enchifrènes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | enchifrenions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.njɔ̃/ | enchifreniez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nje/ | enchifrènent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ |
imperfect2 | enchifrenasse /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nas/ | enchifrenasses /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nas/ | enchifrenât /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na/ | enchifrenassions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na.sjɔ̃/ | enchifrenassiez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na.sje/ | enchifrenassent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/ | — | enchifrenons /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɔ̃/ | enchifrenez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “enchifrener”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.