enfoirer

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ foire (“diarrhoea”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/

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• Homophones: enfoiré, enfoirées, enfoirés, enfoirée, enfoirez

Verb

enfoirer

1. (archaic) to cover with excrement

Conjugation

Conjugation of enfoirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enfoirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enfoirant /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enfoiré /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	enfoires /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	enfoirons /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɔ̃/	enfoirez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/	enfoirent /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/
	imperfect	enfoirais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/	enfoirais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/	enfoirait /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/	enfoirions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁjɔ̃/	enfoiriez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁje/	enfoiraient /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	enfoirai /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/	enfoiras /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa/	enfoira /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa/	enfoirâmes /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁam/	enfoirâtes /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁat/	enfoirèrent /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɛʁ/
	future	enfoirerai /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁe/	enfoireras /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁa/	enfoirera /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁa/	enfoirerons /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	enfoirerez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁe/	enfoireront /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enfoirerais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	enfoirerais /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	enfoirerait /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	enfoirerions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	enfoireriez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.ʁje/	enfoireraient /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁə.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	enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	enfoires /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	enfoirions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁjɔ̃/	enfoiriez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁje/	enfoirent /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/
	imperfect2	enfoirasse /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁas/	enfoirasses /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁas/	enfoirât /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa/	enfoirassions /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	enfoirassiez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁa.sje/	enfoirassent /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enfoire /ɑ̃.fwaʁ/	—	enfoirons /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁɔ̃/	enfoirez /ɑ̃.fwa.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• enfoiré

Further reading

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