ennuager

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ nuage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒe/

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Verb

ennuager

1. to cloud over (become cloudy)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written ennuage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of ennuager (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ennuager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ennuageant /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ennuagé /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ennuage /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	ennuages /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	ennuage /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	ennuageons /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɔ̃/	ennuagez /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒe/	ennuagent /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/
	imperfect	ennuageais /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɛ/	ennuageais /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɛ/	ennuageait /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɛ/	ennuagions /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒjɔ̃/	ennuagiez /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒje/	ennuageaient /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	ennuageai /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒe/	ennuageas /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒa/	ennuagea /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒa/	ennuageâmes /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒam/	ennuageâtes /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒat/	ennuagèrent /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	ennuagerai /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁe/	ennuageras /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁa/	ennuagera /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁa/	ennuagerons /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	ennuagerez /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁe/	ennuageront /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ennuagerais /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁɛ/	ennuagerais /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁɛ/	ennuagerait /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.ʁɛ/	ennuagerions /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	ennuageriez /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒə.ʁje/	ennuageraient /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ.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	ennuage /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	ennuages /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	ennuage /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	ennuagions /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒjɔ̃/	ennuagiez /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒje/	ennuagent /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/
	imperfect2	ennuageasse /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒas/	ennuageasses /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒas/	ennuageât /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒa/	ennuageassions /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	ennuageassiez /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒa.sje/	ennuageassent /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ennuage /ɑ̃.nɥaʒ/	—	ennuageons /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒɔ̃/	ennuagez /ɑ̃.nɥa.ʒe/	—
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

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