étrenner
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /e.tʁɛ.ne/ ~ /e.tʁe.ne/
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Verb
[edit]étrenner
- (transitive) to use/wear for the first time, to premiere; (of clothes) to break in; (figurative) to unveil, introduce
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- Les gamins, vêtus pareillement à leurs papas, semblaient incommodés par leurs habits neufs (beaucoup même étrennèrent ce jour-là la première paire de bottes de leur existence), […] .
- The lads, dressed like their papas, seemed uncomfortable in their new clothes (many that day handselled their first pair of boots), […] .
- 2025 December 27, Julie Carriat, Sandrine Cassini, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon, avec la « nouvelle France », s’empare du terrain de l’identité pour contrer l’extrême droite”, in Le Monde[2]:
- Ce jour-là, le leader de La France insoumise (LFI) vient d’étrenner un nouveau concept politique.
- That day, the leader of La France insoumise (LFI) had just introduced a new political concept.
- to be the guinea pig
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of étrenner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | étrenner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | étrennant /e.tʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /e.tʁe.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | étrenné /e.tʁɛ.ne/ or /e.tʁe.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | étrenne /e.tʁɛn/ |
étrennes /e.tʁɛn/ |
étrenne /e.tʁɛn/ |
étrennons /e.tʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /e.tʁe.nɔ̃/ |
étrennez /e.tʁɛ.ne/ or /e.tʁe.ne/ |
étrennent /e.tʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | étrennais /e.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /e.tʁe.nɛ/ |
étrennais /e.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /e.tʁe.nɛ/ |
étrennait /e.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /e.tʁe.nɛ/ |
étrennions /e.tʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /e.tʁe.njɔ̃/ |
étrenniez /e.tʁɛ.nje/ or /e.tʁe.nje/ |
étrennaient /e.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /e.tʁe.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | étrennai /e.tʁɛ.ne/ or /e.tʁe.ne/ |
étrennas /e.tʁɛ.na/ or /e.tʁe.na/ |
étrenna /e.tʁɛ.na/ or /e.tʁe.na/ |
étrennâmes /e.tʁɛ.nam/ or /e.tʁe.nam/ |
étrennâtes /e.tʁɛ.nat/ or /e.tʁe.nat/ |
étrennèrent /e.tʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /e.tʁe.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | étrennerai /e.tʁɛn.ʁe/ |
étrenneras /e.tʁɛn.ʁa/ |
étrennera /e.tʁɛn.ʁa/ |
étrennerons /e.tʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
étrennerez /e.tʁɛn.ʁe/ |
étrenneront /e.tʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | étrennerais /e.tʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
étrennerais /e.tʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
étrennerait /e.tʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
étrennerions /e.tʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.tʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
étrenneriez /e.tʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /e.tʁe.nə.ʁje/ |
étrenneraient /e.tʁɛn.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 | étrenne /e.tʁɛn/ |
étrennes /e.tʁɛn/ |
étrenne /e.tʁɛn/ |
étrennions /e.tʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /e.tʁe.njɔ̃/ |
étrenniez /e.tʁɛ.nje/ or /e.tʁe.nje/ |
étrennent /e.tʁɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | étrennasse /e.tʁɛ.nas/ or /e.tʁe.nas/ |
étrennasses /e.tʁɛ.nas/ or /e.tʁe.nas/ |
étrennât /e.tʁɛ.na/ or /e.tʁe.na/ |
étrennassions /e.tʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /e.tʁe.na.sjɔ̃/ |
étrennassiez /e.tʁɛ.na.sje/ or /e.tʁe.na.sje/ |
étrennassent /e.tʁɛ.nas/ or /e.tʁe.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | étrenne /e.tʁɛn/ |
— | étrennons /e.tʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /e.tʁe.nɔ̃/ |
étrennez /e.tʁɛ.ne/ or /e.tʁe.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “étrenner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012