entamer
French
Etymology
From Provençal entamenar, from Latin intaminare, from Latin in- + tangere + -are.
Pronunciation
Verb
entamer
- to cut into (something)
- entamer la peau ― cut into the skin
- to remove a small piece of something
- entamer un pain, un melon, un pâté ― cut a piece of bread, melon, pâté
- (card games) to lead (play the first card)
- (figurative) to eat into (savings etc.); to undermine (credibility)
- (figurative) to start, to begin, initiate
- Synonym: commencer
- 1954, Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse:
- Comme elle ne me prêtait pas attention, je m’installai tranquillement sur une marche avec une tasse de café et une orange et entamai les délices du matin : je mordais une orange, un jus sucré giclait dans ma bouche ; une gorgée de café noir brûlant, aussitôt, et à nouveau la fraîcheur du fruit.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2017, Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors, Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques, Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172 footnote 232:
- Malgré l’absence de traces du mot grec dans les dictionnaires du copte, on peut suspecter […] que les Arabes aient trouvé ces notions et les mots correspondants pendant leur longue occupation de l’Égypte avant d’entamer la conquête de l’Ouest.
- Notwithstanding the absence of any trace of the Greek word in the Coptic dictionaries one can assume that the Arabs have found these notions and corresponding words during their long occupation of Egypt before going over to the conquest of the West.
Conjugation
Conjugation of entamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | entamer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | entamant /ɑ̃.ta.mɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | entamé /ɑ̃.ta.me/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entames /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entamons /ɑ̃.ta.mɔ̃/ |
entamez /ɑ̃.ta.me/ |
entament /ɑ̃.tam/ |
imperfect | entamais /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ |
entamais /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ |
entamait /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ |
entamions /ɑ̃.ta.mjɔ̃/ |
entamiez /ɑ̃.ta.mje/ |
entamaient /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ | |
past historic2 | entamai /ɑ̃.ta.me/ |
entamas /ɑ̃.ta.ma/ |
entama /ɑ̃.ta.ma/ |
entamâmes /ɑ̃.ta.mam/ |
entamâtes /ɑ̃.ta.mat/ |
entamèrent /ɑ̃.ta.mɛʁ/ | |
future | entamerai /ɑ̃.tam.ʁe/ |
entameras /ɑ̃.tam.ʁa/ |
entamera /ɑ̃.tam.ʁa/ |
entamerons /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɔ̃/ |
entamerez /ɑ̃.tam.ʁe/ |
entameront /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | entamerais /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɛ/ |
entamerais /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɛ/ |
entamerait /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɛ/ |
entamerions /ɑ̃.ta.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
entameriez /ɑ̃.ta.mə.ʁje/ |
entameraient /ɑ̃.tam.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 | entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entames /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entamions /ɑ̃.ta.mjɔ̃/ |
entamiez /ɑ̃.ta.mje/ |
entament /ɑ̃.tam/ |
imperfect2 | entamasse /ɑ̃.ta.mas/ |
entamasses /ɑ̃.ta.mas/ |
entamât /ɑ̃.ta.ma/ |
entamassions /ɑ̃.ta.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
entamassiez /ɑ̃.ta.ma.sje/ |
entamassent /ɑ̃.ta.mas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
— | entamons /ɑ̃.ta.mɔ̃/ |
entamez /ɑ̃.ta.me/ |
— | |
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). |
Related terms
Further reading
- “entamer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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