ennoblir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- +‎ noble +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.nɔ.bliʁ/

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Verb

ennoblir

1. (transitive) to ennoble

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of ennoblir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ennoblir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ennoblissant /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ennobli /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ennoblis /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblis /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblit /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblissons /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɔ̃/	ennoblissez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.se/	ennoblissent /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/
	imperfect	ennoblissais /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɛ/	ennoblissais /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɛ/	ennoblissait /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɛ/	ennoblissions /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/	ennoblissiez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sje/	ennoblissaient /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɛ/
	past historic2	ennoblis /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblis /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblit /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblîmes /ɑ̃.nɔ.blim/	ennoblîtes /ɑ̃.nɔ.blit/	ennoblirent /ɑ̃.nɔ.bliʁ/
	future	ennoblirai /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁe/	ennobliras /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁa/	ennoblira /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁa/	ennoblirons /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁɔ̃/	ennoblirez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁe/	ennobliront /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ennoblirais /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/	ennoblirais /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/	ennoblirait /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/	ennoblirions /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁjɔ̃/	ennobliriez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.ʁje/	ennobliraient /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.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	ennoblisse /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/	ennoblisses /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/	ennoblisse /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/	ennoblissions /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/	ennoblissiez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sje/	ennoblissent /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/
	imperfect2	ennoblisse /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/	ennoblisses /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/	ennoblît /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	ennoblissions /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/	ennoblissiez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sje/	ennoblissent /ɑ̃.nɔ.blis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ennoblis /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli/	—	ennoblissons /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.sɔ̃/	ennoblissez /ɑ̃.nɔ.bli.se/	—
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

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