entarter

French

Une artilleuse entarte joyeusement son patron. — A fire controlman happily pies her boss.

Etymology

From en- +‎ tarte (“pie”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.taʁ.te/

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• Rhymes: -te, -e
• Homophones: entarté, entartées, entartés, entartez

Verb

entarter

1. (transitive) to throw a cream pie at someone's face, to pie

   Le ministre de l’agriculture a été entarté en plein bain de foule.

   The minister of agriculture was pied right in the middle of a walkabout.

Conjugation

Conjugation of entarter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entarter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entartant /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entarté /ɑ̃.taʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entarte /ɑ̃.taʁt/	entartes /ɑ̃.taʁt/	entarte /ɑ̃.taʁt/	entartons /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɔ̃/	entartez /ɑ̃.taʁ.te/	entartent /ɑ̃.taʁt/
	imperfect	entartais /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɛ/	entartais /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɛ/	entartait /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɛ/	entartions /ɑ̃.taʁ.tjɔ̃/	entartiez /ɑ̃.taʁ.tje/	entartaient /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	entartai /ɑ̃.taʁ.te/	entartas /ɑ̃.taʁ.ta/	entarta /ɑ̃.taʁ.ta/	entartâmes /ɑ̃.taʁ.tam/	entartâtes /ɑ̃.taʁ.tat/	entartèrent /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	entarterai /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁe/	entarteras /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁa/	entartera /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁa/	entarterons /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	entarterez /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁe/	entarteront /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entarterais /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	entarterais /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	entarterait /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	entarterions /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	entarteriez /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.ʁje/	entarteraient /ɑ̃.taʁ.tə.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	entarte /ɑ̃.taʁt/	entartes /ɑ̃.taʁt/	entarte /ɑ̃.taʁt/	entartions /ɑ̃.taʁ.tjɔ̃/	entartiez /ɑ̃.taʁ.tje/	entartent /ɑ̃.taʁt/
	imperfect2	entartasse /ɑ̃.taʁ.tas/	entartasses /ɑ̃.taʁ.tas/	entartât /ɑ̃.taʁ.ta/	entartassions /ɑ̃.taʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	entartassiez /ɑ̃.taʁ.ta.sje/	entartassent /ɑ̃.taʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entarte /ɑ̃.taʁt/	—	entartons /ɑ̃.taʁ.tɔ̃/	entartez /ɑ̃.taʁ.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

• entartage (“pieing, pie attack”)
• entartement (“pieing, pie attack”)
• entarteur (“one who pies”)
• entartiste (“one who pies”)

Anagrams

• arrêtent, entartre, entartré, enterrât, ratèrent, réentrât, renatter, reratent, retarent, tarèrent, Tartréen, tartréen