éventrer
See also: eventrer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From é- + ventre (“stomach”) + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]éventrer
- (literally) to gut, to disembowel
- Synonym: éviscérer
- (by extension) to rip apart, to tear open
- 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 9:
- Il n’a pas acheté de café depuis des semaines. Les cigarettes qu’il roule le matin en éventrant les mégots de la veille sont si fines que c’est comme tirer sur du papier.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (of a bull) to gore
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of éventrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éventrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | éventrant /e.vɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | éventré /e.vɑ̃.tʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | éventre /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
éventres /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
éventre /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
éventrons /e.vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
éventrez /e.vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
éventrent /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect | éventrais /e.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
éventrais /e.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
éventrait /e.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
éventrions /e.vɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
éventriez /e.vɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
éventraient /e.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | éventrai /e.vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
éventras /e.vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
éventra /e.vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
éventrâmes /e.vɑ̃.tʁam/ |
éventrâtes /e.vɑ̃.tʁat/ |
éventrèrent /e.vɑ̃.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | éventrerai /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
éventreras /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
éventrera /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
éventrerons /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
éventrerez /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
éventreront /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éventrerais /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
éventrerais /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
éventrerait /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
éventrerions /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
éventreriez /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.ʁje/ |
éventreraient /e.vɑ̃.tʁə.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 | éventre /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
éventres /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
éventre /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
éventrions /e.vɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
éventriez /e.vɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
éventrent /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | éventrasse /e.vɑ̃.tʁas/ |
éventrasses /e.vɑ̃.tʁas/ |
éventrât /e.vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
éventrassions /e.vɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
éventrassiez /e.vɑ̃.tʁa.sje/ |
éventrassent /e.vɑ̃.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | éventre /e.vɑ̃tʁ/ |
— | éventrons /e.vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
éventrez /e.vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “éventrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.