enchainer

See also: enchaîner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

enchainer

1. post-1990 spelling of enchaîner

Conjugation

Conjugation of enchainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enchainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enchainant /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enchainé /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enchaine /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	enchaines /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	enchaine /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	enchainons /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɔ̃/	enchainez /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.ne/	enchainent /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/
	imperfect	enchainais /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɛ/	enchainais /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɛ/	enchainait /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɛ/	enchainions /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.njɔ̃/	enchainiez /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nje/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nje/	enchainaient /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɛ/
	past historic2	enchainai /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.ne/	enchainas /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.na/	enchaina /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.na/	enchainâmes /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nam/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nam/	enchainâtes /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nat/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nat/	enchainèrent /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɛʁ/
	future	enchainerai /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁe/	enchaineras /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁa/	enchainera /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁa/	enchainerons /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁɔ̃/	enchainerez /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁe/	enchaineront /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enchainerais /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁɛ/	enchainerais /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁɛ/	enchainerait /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.ʁɛ/	enchainerions /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	enchaineriez /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nə.ʁje/	enchaineraient /ɑ̃.ʃɛn.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	enchaine /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	enchaines /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	enchaine /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	enchainions /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.njɔ̃/	enchainiez /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nje/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nje/	enchainent /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/
	imperfect2	enchainasse /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nas/	enchainasses /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nas/	enchainât /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.na/	enchainassions /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.na.sjɔ̃/	enchainassiez /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na.sje/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.na.sje/	enchainassent /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enchaine /ɑ̃.ʃɛn/	—	enchainons /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.nɔ̃/	enchainez /ɑ̃.ʃɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʃe.ne/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “enchainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.