entêter

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ tête +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tɛ.te/ ~ /ɑ̃.te.te/

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Verb

entêter

1. (reflexive) to be obstinate about, to persist in [with à; or with dans]
2. (reflexive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1987, Michel Berger (lyrics and music), “Babacar”, performed by France Gall:

     J’ai des images qui s’entêtent / J’ai des ondes de chaleur

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. to go to someone's head

   Synonym: monter à la tête

   Ce vin m’entête. ― This wine goes to my head.

Conjugation

Conjugation of entêter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entêter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entêtant /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entêté /ɑ̃.tɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.te.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entête /ɑ̃.tɛt/	entêtes /ɑ̃.tɛt/	entête /ɑ̃.tɛt/	entêtons /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɔ̃/	entêtez /ɑ̃.tɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.te.te/	entêtent /ɑ̃.tɛt/
	imperfect	entêtais /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɛ/	entêtais /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɛ/	entêtait /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɛ/	entêtions /ɑ̃.tɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tjɔ̃/	entêtiez /ɑ̃.tɛ.tje/ or /ɑ̃.te.tje/	entêtaient /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɛ/
	past historic2	entêtai /ɑ̃.tɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.te.te/	entêtas /ɑ̃.tɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.te.ta/	entêta /ɑ̃.tɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.te.ta/	entêtâmes /ɑ̃.tɛ.tam/ or /ɑ̃.te.tam/	entêtâtes /ɑ̃.tɛ.tat/ or /ɑ̃.te.tat/	entêtèrent /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɛʁ/
	future	entêterai /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁe/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁe/	entêteras /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁa/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁa/	entêtera /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁa/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁa/	entêterons /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁɔ̃/	entêterez /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁe/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁe/	entêteront /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entêterais /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁɛ/	entêterais /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁɛ/	entêterait /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁɛ/	entêterions /ɑ̃.tɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	entêteriez /ɑ̃.tɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.te.tə.ʁje/	entêteraient /ɑ̃.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.te.tʁɛ/
(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	entête /ɑ̃.tɛt/	entêtes /ɑ̃.tɛt/	entête /ɑ̃.tɛt/	entêtions /ɑ̃.tɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tjɔ̃/	entêtiez /ɑ̃.tɛ.tje/ or /ɑ̃.te.tje/	entêtent /ɑ̃.tɛt/
	imperfect2	entêtasse /ɑ̃.tɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.te.tas/	entêtasses /ɑ̃.tɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.te.tas/	entêtât /ɑ̃.tɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.te.ta/	entêtassions /ɑ̃.tɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.ta.sjɔ̃/	entêtassiez /ɑ̃.tɛ.ta.sje/ or /ɑ̃.te.ta.sje/	entêtassent /ɑ̃.tɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.te.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entête /ɑ̃.tɛt/	—	entêtons /ɑ̃.tɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.te.tɔ̃/	entêtez /ɑ̃.tɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.te.te/	—
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

• entêtement
• entêté

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• retente, retenté