enfermer
French
Etymology
From en- + fermer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/
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Verb
enfermer
- (transitive) to lock up, lock in, lock away
- 2015, Zaz, Si jamais j'oublie
- Et s'il me prend l'envie d' m'en aller, enferme-moi et jette la clé.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 2015, Zaz, Si jamais j'oublie
- (transitive) to imprison, entrap
- (transitive, literary) to enclose, contain
Conjugation
Conjugation of enfermer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | enfermer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | enfermant /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | enfermé /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | enferme /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | enfermes /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | enferme /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | enfermons /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɔ̃/ | enfermez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/ | enferment /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ |
| imperfect | enfermais /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ/ | enfermais /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ/ | enfermait /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ/ | enfermions /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mjɔ̃/ | enfermiez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mje/ | enfermaient /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | enfermai /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/ | enfermas /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.ma/ | enferma /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.ma/ | enfermâmes /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mam/ | enfermâtes /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mat/ | enfermèrent /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | enfermerai /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁe/ | enfermeras /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁa/ | enfermera /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁa/ | enfermerons /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | enfermerez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁe/ | enfermeront /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | enfermerais /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | enfermerais /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | enfermerait /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | enfermerions /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | enfermeriez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.ʁje/ | enfermeraient /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.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 | enferme /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | enfermes /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | enferme /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | enfermions /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mjɔ̃/ | enfermiez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mje/ | enferment /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ |
| imperfect2 | enfermasse /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mas/ | enfermasses /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mas/ | enfermât /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.ma/ | enfermassions /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/ | enfermassiez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.ma.sje/ | enfermassent /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | enferme /ɑ̃.fɛʁm/ | — | enfermons /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɔ̃/ | enfermez /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/ | — | |
| 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
- “enfermer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- renferme, renfermé