enclouer

French

Etymology

From Old French encloer. By surface analysis, en- +‎ clou +‎ -er. Or alternatively from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.klu.e/

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Verb

enclouer

1. to nail in, put a nail in

Conjugation

Conjugation of enclouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enclouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enclouant /ɑ̃.klu.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		encloué /ɑ̃.klu.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	encloue /ɑ̃.klu/	encloues /ɑ̃.klu/	encloue /ɑ̃.klu/	enclouons /ɑ̃.klu.ɔ̃/	enclouez /ɑ̃.klu.e/	enclouent /ɑ̃.klu/
	imperfect	enclouais /ɑ̃.klu.ɛ/	enclouais /ɑ̃.klu.ɛ/	enclouait /ɑ̃.klu.ɛ/	enclouions /ɑ̃.klu.jɔ̃/	enclouiez /ɑ̃.klu.je/	enclouaient /ɑ̃.klu.ɛ/
	past historic2	enclouai /ɑ̃.klu.e/	enclouas /ɑ̃.klu.a/	encloua /ɑ̃.klu.a/	enclouâmes /ɑ̃.klu.am/	enclouâtes /ɑ̃.klu.at/	enclouèrent /ɑ̃.klu.ɛʁ/
	future	enclouerai /ɑ̃.klu.ʁe/	encloueras /ɑ̃.klu.ʁa/	enclouera /ɑ̃.klu.ʁa/	enclouerons /ɑ̃.klu.ʁɔ̃/	enclouerez /ɑ̃.klu.ʁe/	encloueront /ɑ̃.klu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enclouerais /ɑ̃.klu.ʁɛ/	enclouerais /ɑ̃.klu.ʁɛ/	enclouerait /ɑ̃.klu.ʁɛ/	enclouerions /ɑ̃.klu.ʁjɔ̃/	encloueriez /ɑ̃.klu.ʁje/	encloueraient /ɑ̃.klu.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	encloue /ɑ̃.klu/	encloues /ɑ̃.klu/	encloue /ɑ̃.klu/	enclouions /ɑ̃.klu.jɔ̃/	enclouiez /ɑ̃.klu.je/	enclouent /ɑ̃.klu/
	imperfect2	enclouasse /ɑ̃.klu.as/	enclouasses /ɑ̃.klu.as/	enclouât /ɑ̃.klu.a/	enclouassions /ɑ̃.klu.a.sjɔ̃/	enclouassiez /ɑ̃.klu.a.sje/	enclouassent /ɑ̃.klu.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	encloue /ɑ̃.klu/	—	enclouons /ɑ̃.klu.ɔ̃/	enclouez /ɑ̃.klu.e/	—
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).

Related terms

• clouer
• clou
• déclouer

See also

• enclaver

Further reading

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