enchérir

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ cher +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

enchérir

1. (transitive) to make more expensive
2. (transitive) to bid; to make a bid (at auction etc.)
3. (intransitive) to go up (in price), become more expensive

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 enchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enchérir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enchérissant /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enchéri /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchérit /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchérissons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	enchérissez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/	enchérissent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
	imperfect	enchérissais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	enchérissais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	enchérissait /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	enchérissions /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	enchérissiez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	enchérissaient /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchérit /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchérîmes /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/	enchérîtes /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/	enchérirent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/
	future	enchérirai /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/	enchériras /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/	enchérira /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/	enchérirons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	enchérirez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/	enchériront /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enchérirais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	enchérirais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	enchérirait /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	enchéririons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	enchéririez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/	enchériraient /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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	enchérisse /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	enchérisses /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	enchérisse /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	enchérissions /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	enchérissiez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	enchérissent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
	imperfect2	enchérisse /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	enchérisses /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	enchérît /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	enchérissions /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	enchérissiez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	enchérissent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	—	enchérissons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	enchérissez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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).

Derived terms

• renchérir, réenchérir
• surenchérir
• enchérisseur, enchérisseuse

Related terms

• enchère

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• renchéri