engouffrer
French
Etymology
Derived from en- + gouffre + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe/
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Verb
engouffrer
- (transitive) to engulf, swallow up
- 1873, Jules Verne, chapter 30, in Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Around the World in Eighty Days], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie:
- Des pelletées de charbon et de bois furent engouffrées dans le foyer de sa chaudière, le feu se ranima, la pression monta de nouveau, et, vers deux heures après midi, la machine revenait en arrière vers la station de Kearney.
- Shovelsfull of coal and wood were engulfed in the hearth of the boiler, the fire revived, pressure increased anew, and, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the machine returned, backwards, to Fort Kearney.
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- (transitive) to gobble up; to eat up
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to rush, dive into
- Synonym: précipiter
- 1918, Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower] (À la recherche du temps perdu):
- Et tous les quatre qui trouvaient que le phénomène international du Palace, implanté à Balbec, y avait fait fleurir le luxe plus que la bonne cuisine, s'engouffraient dans une voiture, […]
- And then all four, because they found that the international phenomenon of the 'Palace,' planted on Balbec soil, had blossomed there in material splendour rather than in food that was fit to eat, bundled into a carriage […]
Conjugation
Conjugation of engouffrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | engouffrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | engouffrant /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | engouffré /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | engouffre /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | engouffres /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | engouffre /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | engouffrons /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɔ̃/ | engouffrez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe/ | engouffrent /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ |
| imperfect | engouffrais /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɛ/ | engouffrais /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɛ/ | engouffrait /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɛ/ | engouffrions /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁi.jɔ̃/ | engouffriez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁi.je/ | engouffraient /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | engouffrai /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe/ | engouffras /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁa/ | engouffra /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁa/ | engouffrâmes /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁam/ | engouffrâtes /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁat/ | engouffrèrent /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | engouffrerai /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁe/ | engouffreras /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁa/ | engouffrera /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁa/ | engouffrerons /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | engouffrerez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁe/ | engouffreront /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | engouffrerais /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁɛ/ | engouffrerais /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁɛ/ | engouffrerait /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁɛ/ | engouffrerions /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | engouffreriez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.ʁje/ | engouffreraient /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁə.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 | engouffre /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | engouffres /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | engouffre /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | engouffrions /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁi.jɔ̃/ | engouffriez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁi.je/ | engouffrent /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | engouffrasse /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁas/ | engouffrasses /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁas/ | engouffrât /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁa/ | engouffrassions /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁa.sjɔ̃/ | engouffrassiez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁa.sje/ | engouffrassent /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | engouffre /ɑ̃.ɡufʁ/ | — | engouffrons /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁɔ̃/ | engouffrez /ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe/ | — | |
| 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
- “engouffrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.