enlever
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Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
enlever
- (transitive) to remove, take off, take away, clear
- (transitive) to take off, remove (clothes)
- Elle enleva ses lunettes et j'aperçus sa beauté.
- She took off her glasses and I glimpsed her beauty.
- Elle enleva ses lunettes et j'aperçus sa beauté.
- (transitive) to kidnap, abduct
- (transitive) to win, capture, carry off
- (reflexive) to come out, wash off
Conjugation[edit]
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il enlève rather than *il enleve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of enlever (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | enlever | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | enlevant /ɑ̃l.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | enlevé /ɑ̃l.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlèves /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlevons /ɑ̃l.vɔ̃/ |
enlevez /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
enlèvent /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
| imperfect | enlevais /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
enlevais /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
enlevait /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
enlevions /ɑ̃.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
enleviez /ɑ̃.lə.vje/ |
enlevaient /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | enlevai /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
enlevas /ɑ̃l.va/ |
enleva /ɑ̃l.va/ |
enlevâmes /ɑ̃l.vam/ |
enlevâtes /ɑ̃l.vat/ |
enlevèrent /ɑ̃l.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | enlèverai /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁe/ |
enlèveras /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁa/ |
enlèvera /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁa/ |
enlèverons /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
enlèverez /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁe/ |
enlèveront /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | enlèverais /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
enlèverais /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
enlèverait /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
enlèverions /ɑ̃.lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
enlèveriez /ɑ̃.lɛ.və.ʁje/ |
enlèveraient /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlèves /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlevions /ɑ̃.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
enleviez /ɑ̃.lə.vje/ |
enlèvent /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
| imperfect2 | enlevasse /ɑ̃l.vas/ |
enlevasses /ɑ̃l.vas/ |
enlevât /ɑ̃l.va/ |
enlevassions /ɑ̃l.va.sjɔ̃/ |
enlevassiez /ɑ̃l.va.sje/ |
enlevassent /ɑ̃l.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
— | enlevons /ɑ̃l.vɔ̃/ |
enlevez /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “enlever” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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Etymology[edit]
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Verb[edit]
enlever
