enfariner

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ farine +‎ -er. Compare Catalan enfarinar, Italian infarinare, Portuguese enfarinhar, Romanian înfăina, Spanish enharinar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.ne/

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Verb

enfariner

1. to flour (cover with flour)

   Synonym: fariner

Conjugation

Conjugation of enfariner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enfariner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enfarinant /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enfariné /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enfarine /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	enfarines /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	enfarine /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	enfarinons /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɔ̃/	enfarinez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.ne/	enfarinent /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/
	imperfect	enfarinais /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɛ/	enfarinais /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɛ/	enfarinait /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɛ/	enfarinions /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.njɔ̃/	enfariniez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nje/	enfarinaient /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɛ/
	past historic2	enfarinai /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.ne/	enfarinas /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.na/	enfarina /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.na/	enfarinâmes /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nam/	enfarinâtes /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nat/	enfarinèrent /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɛʁ/
	future	enfarinerai /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁe/	enfarineras /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁa/	enfarinera /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁa/	enfarinerons /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁɔ̃/	enfarinerez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁe/	enfarineront /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enfarinerais /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁɛ/	enfarinerais /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁɛ/	enfarinerait /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.ʁɛ/	enfarinerions /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	enfarineriez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nə.ʁje/	enfarineraient /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin.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	enfarine /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	enfarines /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	enfarine /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	enfarinions /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.njɔ̃/	enfariniez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nje/	enfarinent /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/
	imperfect2	enfarinasse /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nas/	enfarinasses /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nas/	enfarinât /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.na/	enfarinassions /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.na.sjɔ̃/	enfarinassiez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.na.sje/	enfarinassent /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enfarine /ɑ̃.fa.ʁin/	—	enfarinons /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.nɔ̃/	enfarinez /ɑ̃.fa.ʁi.ne/	—
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

• la gueule enfarinée

Further reading

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