endetter

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ dette. Compare Occitan and Catalan endeutar; Spanish endeudar; Portuguese endividar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dɛ.te/, /ɑ̃.de.te/

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Verb

endetter

1. (transitive) to indebt; to put someone or something into debt
2. (reflexive) to get into debt

Conjugation

Conjugation of endetter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	endetter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	endettant /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		endetté /ɑ̃.dɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.de.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	endette /ɑ̃.dɛt/	endettes /ɑ̃.dɛt/	endette /ɑ̃.dɛt/	endettons /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɔ̃/	endettez /ɑ̃.dɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.de.te/	endettent /ɑ̃.dɛt/
	imperfect	endettais /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɛ/	endettais /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɛ/	endettait /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɛ/	endettions /ɑ̃.dɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tjɔ̃/	endettiez /ɑ̃.dɛ.tje/ or /ɑ̃.de.tje/	endettaient /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɛ/
	past historic2	endettai /ɑ̃.dɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.de.te/	endettas /ɑ̃.dɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.de.ta/	endetta /ɑ̃.dɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.de.ta/	endettâmes /ɑ̃.dɛ.tam/ or /ɑ̃.de.tam/	endettâtes /ɑ̃.dɛ.tat/ or /ɑ̃.de.tat/	endettèrent /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɛʁ/
	future	endetterai /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁe/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁe/	endetteras /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁa/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁa/	endettera /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁa/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁa/	endetterons /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁɔ̃/	endetterez /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁe/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁe/	endetteront /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	endetterais /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁɛ/	endetterais /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁɛ/	endetterait /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.tʁɛ/	endetterions /ɑ̃.dɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	endetteriez /ɑ̃.dɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.de.tə.ʁje/	endetteraient /ɑ̃.dɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.de.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	endette /ɑ̃.dɛt/	endettes /ɑ̃.dɛt/	endette /ɑ̃.dɛt/	endettions /ɑ̃.dɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tjɔ̃/	endettiez /ɑ̃.dɛ.tje/ or /ɑ̃.de.tje/	endettent /ɑ̃.dɛt/
	imperfect2	endettasse /ɑ̃.dɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.de.tas/	endettasses /ɑ̃.dɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.de.tas/	endettât /ɑ̃.dɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.de.ta/	endettassions /ɑ̃.dɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.ta.sjɔ̃/	endettassiez /ɑ̃.dɛ.ta.sje/ or /ɑ̃.de.ta.sje/	endettassent /ɑ̃.dɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.de.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	endette /ɑ̃.dɛt/	—	endettons /ɑ̃.dɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.de.tɔ̃/	endettez /ɑ̃.dɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.de.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).

Related terms

• dette

Further reading

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