ennoyer

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ noyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.nwa.je/

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Verb

ennoyer

1. to flood, inundate

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

Conjugation of ennoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ennoyer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ennoyant /ɑ̃.nwa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ennoyé /ɑ̃.nwa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ennoie /ɑ̃.nwa/	ennoies /ɑ̃.nwa/	ennoie /ɑ̃.nwa/	ennoyons /ɑ̃.nwa.jɔ̃/	ennoyez /ɑ̃.nwa.je/	ennoient /ɑ̃.nwa/
	imperfect	ennoyais /ɑ̃.nwa.jɛ/	ennoyais /ɑ̃.nwa.jɛ/	ennoyait /ɑ̃.nwa.jɛ/	ennoyions /ɑ̃.nwaj.jɔ̃/	ennoyiez /ɑ̃.nwaj.je/	ennoyaient /ɑ̃.nwa.jɛ/
	past historic2	ennoyai /ɑ̃.nwa.je/	ennoyas /ɑ̃.nwa.ja/	ennoya /ɑ̃.nwa.ja/	ennoyâmes /ɑ̃.nwa.jam/	ennoyâtes /ɑ̃.nwa.jat/	ennoyèrent /ɑ̃.nwa.jɛʁ/
	future	ennoierai /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁe/	ennoieras /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁa/	ennoiera /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁa/	ennoierons /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁɔ̃/	ennoierez /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁe/	ennoieront /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ennoierais /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁɛ/	ennoierais /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁɛ/	ennoierait /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁɛ/	ennoierions /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁjɔ̃/	ennoieriez /ɑ̃.nwa.ʁje/	ennoieraient /ɑ̃.nwa.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	ennoie /ɑ̃.nwa/	ennoies /ɑ̃.nwa/	ennoie /ɑ̃.nwa/	ennoyions /ɑ̃.nwaj.jɔ̃/	ennoyiez /ɑ̃.nwaj.je/	ennoient /ɑ̃.nwa/
	imperfect2	ennoyasse /ɑ̃.nwa.jas/	ennoyasses /ɑ̃.nwa.jas/	ennoyât /ɑ̃.nwa.ja/	ennoyassions /ɑ̃.nwa.ja.sjɔ̃/	ennoyassiez /ɑ̃.nwa.ja.sje/	ennoyassent /ɑ̃.nwa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ennoie /ɑ̃.nwa/	—	ennoyons /ɑ̃.nwa.jɔ̃/	ennoyez /ɑ̃.nwa.je/	—
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).

Related terms

• ennoiement

Further reading

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