enchifrener

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

enchifrener

1. (archaic) to block up (a nose)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il enchifrène and the third-person singular future indicative il enchifrènera.

Conjugation of enchifrener (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enchifrener
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enchifrenant /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enchifrené /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	enchifrènes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	enchifrenons /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɔ̃/	enchifrenez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.ne/	enchifrènent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/
	imperfect	enchifrenais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/	enchifrenais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/	enchifrenait /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/	enchifrenions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.njɔ̃/	enchifreniez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nje/	enchifrenaient /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛ/
	past historic2	enchifrenai /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.ne/	enchifrenas /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na/	enchifrena /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na/	enchifrenâmes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nam/	enchifrenâtes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nat/	enchifrenèrent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɛʁ/
	future	enchifrènerai /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁe/	enchifrèneras /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁa/	enchifrènera /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁa/	enchifrènerons /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	enchifrènerez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁe/	enchifrèneront /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enchifrènerais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɛ/	enchifrènerais /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɛ/	enchifrènerait /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.ʁɛ/	enchifrènerions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	enchifrèneriez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁe.nə.ʁje/	enchifrèneraient /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn.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	enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	enchifrènes /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	enchifrenions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.njɔ̃/	enchifreniez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nje/	enchifrènent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/
	imperfect2	enchifrenasse /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nas/	enchifrenasses /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nas/	enchifrenât /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na/	enchifrenassions /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na.sjɔ̃/	enchifrenassiez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.na.sje/	enchifrenassent /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enchifrène /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁɛn/	—	enchifrenons /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.nɔ̃/	enchifrenez /ɑ̃.ʃi.fʁə.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

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