enclencher

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ clenche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

enclencher

1. to set off, start up, put in motion

Conjugation

Conjugation of enclencher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enclencher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enclenchant /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enclenché /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enclenche /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	enclenches /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	enclenche /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	enclenchons /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	enclenchez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃe/	enclenchent /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	enclenchais /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɛ/	enclenchais /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɛ/	enclenchait /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɛ/	enclenchions /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	enclenchiez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃje/	enclenchaient /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	enclenchai /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃe/	enclenchas /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃa/	enclencha /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃa/	enclenchâmes /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃam/	enclenchâtes /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃat/	enclenchèrent /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	enclencherai /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	enclencheras /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	enclenchera /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	enclencherons /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	enclencherez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	enclencheront /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enclencherais /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	enclencherais /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	enclencherait /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	enclencherions /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	enclencheriez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	enclencheraient /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ.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	enclenche /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	enclenches /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	enclenche /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	enclenchions /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	enclenchiez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃje/	enclenchent /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	enclenchasse /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃas/	enclenchasses /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃas/	enclenchât /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃa/	enclenchassions /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	enclenchassiez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	enclenchassent /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enclenche /ɑ̃.klɑ̃ʃ/	—	enclenchons /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	enclenchez /ɑ̃.klɑ̃.ʃe/	—
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

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