enduire

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French enduire, inherited from Latin indūcere. Doublet of induire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dɥiʁ/

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Verb

enduire

1. to plaster
2. to coat, cover
3. to smear, anoint (to smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance)

Conjugation

This verb follows the same conjugation pattern as conduire.

Conjugation of enduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enduire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enduisant /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enduit /ɑ̃.dɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enduis /ɑ̃.dɥi/	enduis /ɑ̃.dɥi/	enduit /ɑ̃.dɥi/	enduisons /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	enduisez /ɑ̃.dɥi.ze/	enduisent /ɑ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect	enduisais /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	enduisais /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	enduisait /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	enduisions /ɑ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	enduisiez /ɑ̃.dɥi.zje/	enduisaient /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	enduisis /ɑ̃.dɥi.zi/	enduisis /ɑ̃.dɥi.zi/	enduisit /ɑ̃.dɥi.zi/	enduisîmes /ɑ̃.dɥi.zim/	enduisîtes /ɑ̃.dɥi.zit/	enduisirent /ɑ̃.dɥi.ziʁ/
	future	enduirai /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	enduiras /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	enduira /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	enduirons /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/	enduirez /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	enduiront /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enduirais /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	enduirais /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	enduirait /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	enduirions /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	enduiriez /ɑ̃.dɥi.ʁje/	enduiraient /ɑ̃.dɥi.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	enduise /ɑ̃.dɥiz/	enduises /ɑ̃.dɥiz/	enduise /ɑ̃.dɥiz/	enduisions /ɑ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	enduisiez /ɑ̃.dɥi.zje/	enduisent /ɑ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect2	enduisisse /ɑ̃.dɥi.zis/	enduisisses /ɑ̃.dɥi.zis/	enduisît /ɑ̃.dɥi.zi/	enduisissions /ɑ̃.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	enduisissiez /ɑ̃.dɥi.zi.sje/	enduisissent /ɑ̃.dɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enduis /ɑ̃.dɥi/	—	enduisons /ɑ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	enduisez /ɑ̃.dɥi.ze/	—
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

• enduit

Further reading

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