enfoirer
French
Etymology
en- + foire (“diarrhoea”) + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/
Audio (file) - Homophones: enfoiré, enfoirées, enfoirés, enfoirée, enfoirez
Verb
enfoirer
- (archaic) to cover with excrement
Conjugation
Conjugation of enfoirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | enfoirer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | enfoirant /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | enfoiré /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | enfoires /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | enfoirons /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɔ̃/ | enfoirez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/ | enfoirent /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ |
imperfect | enfoirais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/ | enfoirais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/ | enfoirait /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/ | enfoirions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁjɔ̃/ | enfoiriez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁje/ | enfoiraient /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | enfoirai /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/ | enfoiras /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa/ | enfoira /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa/ | enfoirâmes /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁam/ | enfoirâtes /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁat/ | enfoirèrent /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛʁ/ | |
future | enfoirerai /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁe/ | enfoireras /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁa/ | enfoirera /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁa/ | enfoirerons /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | enfoirerez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁe/ | enfoireront /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | enfoirerais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | enfoirerais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | enfoirerait /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | enfoirerions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | enfoireriez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁje/ | enfoireraient /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.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 | enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | enfoires /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | enfoirions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁjɔ̃/ | enfoiriez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁje/ | enfoirent /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ |
imperfect2 | enfoirasse /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁas/ | enfoirasses /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁas/ | enfoirât /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa/ | enfoirassions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | enfoirassiez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa.sje/ | enfoirassent /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/ | — | enfoirons /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɔ̃/ | enfoirez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/ | — | |
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). |
Derived terms
- enfoiré
Further reading
- “enfoirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.