enfanter
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]enfanter
- (literary, transitive) to bear [a child], bring into the world
- (transitive, of animals) to give birth
- (transitive, of plants) to bear [fruit]
- (transitive) to produce, reel off [an opus]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of enfanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | enfanter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | enfantant /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | enfanté /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | enfante /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
enfantes /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
enfante /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
enfantons /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
enfantez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te/ |
enfantent /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
imperfect | enfantais /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɛ/ |
enfantais /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɛ/ |
enfantait /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɛ/ |
enfantions /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
enfantiez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tje/ |
enfantaient /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | enfantai /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te/ |
enfantas /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ta/ |
enfanta /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ta/ |
enfantâmes /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tam/ |
enfantâtes /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tat/ |
enfantèrent /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
future | enfanterai /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁe/ |
enfanteras /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁa/ |
enfantera /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁa/ |
enfanterons /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
enfanterez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁe/ |
enfanteront /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | enfanterais /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
enfanterais /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
enfanterait /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
enfanterions /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
enfanteriez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
enfanteraient /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | enfante /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
enfantes /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
enfante /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
enfantions /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
enfantiez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tje/ |
enfantent /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
imperfect2 | enfantasse /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tas/ |
enfantasses /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tas/ |
enfantât /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ta/ |
enfantassions /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
enfantassiez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
enfantassent /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | enfante /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t/ |
— | enfantons /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
enfantez /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te/ |
— | |
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). |
Synonyms
[edit](bear [a child]):
Descendants
[edit]- → Italian: infantare
Further reading
[edit]- “enfanter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- enfaunter (Late Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]enfanter
- to give birth
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of enfanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | enfanter | avoir enfanté | |||||
gerund | en enfantant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | enfantant | ||||||
past participle | enfanté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | enfant | enfantes | enfante | enfantons | enfantez | enfantent |
imperfect | enfantoie, enfanteie, enfantoe, enfanteve | enfantoies, enfanteies, enfantoes, enfanteves | enfantoit, enfanteit, enfantot, enfanteve | enfantiiens, enfantiens | enfantiiez, enfantiez | enfantoient, enfanteient, enfantoent, enfantevent | |
preterite | enfantai | enfantas | enfanta | enfantames | enfantastes | enfanterent | |
future | enfanterai | enfanteras | enfantera | enfanterons | enfanteroiz, enfantereiz, enfanterez | enfanteront | |
conditional | enfanteroie, enfantereie | enfanteroies, enfantereies | enfanteroit, enfantereit | enfanteriiens, enfanteriens | enfanteriiez, enfanteriez | enfanteroient, enfantereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | enfant | enfanz | enfant | enfantons | enfantez | enfantent |
imperfect | enfantasse | enfantasses | enfantast | enfantissons, enfantissiens | enfantissoiz, enfantissez, enfantissiez | enfantassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | enfante | — | enfantons | enfantez | — |
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