entr'ouvrir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁiʁ/

Verb

entr’ouvrir

1. Dated form of entrouvrir.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle entr’ouvert is irregular.

Conjugation of entr'ouvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entr'ouvrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entr’ouvrant /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entr’ouvert /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vɛʁ/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entr’ouvre /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	entr’ouvres /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	entr’ouvre /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	entr’ouvrons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɔ̃/	entr’ouvrez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁe/	entr’ouvrent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/
	imperfect	entr’ouvrais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɛ/	entr’ouvrais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɛ/	entr’ouvrait /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɛ/	entr’ouvrions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.jɔ̃/	entr’ouvriez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.je/	entr’ouvraient /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɛ/
	past historic2	entr’ouvris /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi/	entr’ouvris /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi/	entr’ouvrit /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi/	entr’ouvrîmes /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁim/	entr’ouvrîtes /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁit/	entr’ouvrirent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁiʁ/
	future	entr’ouvrirai /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁe/	entr’ouvriras /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁa/	entr’ouvrira /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁa/	entr’ouvrirons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/	entr’ouvrirez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁe/	entr’ouvriront /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entr’ouvrirais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁɛ/	entr’ouvrirais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁɛ/	entr’ouvrirait /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁɛ/	entr’ouvririons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	entr’ouvririez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.ʁje/	entr’ouvriraient /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.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	entr’ouvre /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	entr’ouvres /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	entr’ouvre /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	entr’ouvrions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.jɔ̃/	entr’ouvriez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.je/	entr’ouvrent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/
	imperfect2	entr’ouvrisse /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁis/	entr’ouvrisses /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁis/	entr’ouvrît /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi/	entr’ouvrissions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.sjɔ̃/	entr’ouvrissiez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁi.sje/	entr’ouvrissent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entr’ouvre /ɑ̃.tʁ‿uvʁ/	—	entr’ouvrons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁɔ̃/	entr’ouvrez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿u.vʁe/	—
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

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