enrêner

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ rêne +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.ne/, /ɑ̃.ʁe.ne/

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Verb

enrêner

1. (transitive) to harness (a horse)

Conjugation

Conjugation of enrêner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enrêner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enrênant /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enrêné /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enrêne /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	enrênes /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	enrêne /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	enrênons /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɔ̃/	enrênez /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.ne/	enrênent /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/
	imperfect	enrênais /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɛ/	enrênais /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɛ/	enrênait /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɛ/	enrênions /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.njɔ̃/	enrêniez /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nje/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nje/	enrênaient /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɛ/
	past historic2	enrênai /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.ne/	enrênas /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.na/	enrêna /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.na/	enrênâmes /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nam/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nam/	enrênâtes /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nat/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nat/	enrênèrent /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɛʁ/
	future	enrênerai /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁe/	enrêneras /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁa/	enrênera /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁa/	enrênerons /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	enrênerez /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁe/	enrêneront /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enrênerais /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	enrênerais /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	enrênerait /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	enrênerions /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	enrêneriez /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nə.ʁje/	enrêneraient /ɑ̃.ʁɛn.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	enrêne /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	enrênes /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	enrêne /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	enrênions /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.njɔ̃/	enrêniez /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nje/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nje/	enrênent /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/
	imperfect2	enrênasse /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nas/	enrênasses /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nas/	enrênât /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.na/	enrênassions /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.na.sjɔ̃/	enrênassiez /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.na.sje/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.na.sje/	enrênassent /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enrêne /ɑ̃.ʁɛn/	—	enrênons /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.nɔ̃/	enrênez /ɑ̃.ʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.ʁe.ne/	—
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

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