ensabler

French

Etymology

en- +‎ sable (“sand”) +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.sa.ble/

Verb

ensabler

1. (transitive) to silt up
2. (transitive) to strand (on a sandbank or beach)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ensabler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ensabler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ensablant /ɑ̃.sa.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ensablé /ɑ̃.sa.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ensable /ɑ̃.sabl/	ensables /ɑ̃.sabl/	ensable /ɑ̃.sabl/	ensablons /ɑ̃.sa.blɔ̃/	ensablez /ɑ̃.sa.ble/	ensablent /ɑ̃.sabl/
	imperfect	ensablais /ɑ̃.sa.blɛ/	ensablais /ɑ̃.sa.blɛ/	ensablait /ɑ̃.sa.blɛ/	ensablions /ɑ̃.sa.bli.jɔ̃/	ensabliez /ɑ̃.sa.bli.je/	ensablaient /ɑ̃.sa.blɛ/
	past historic2	ensablai /ɑ̃.sa.ble/	ensablas /ɑ̃.sa.bla/	ensabla /ɑ̃.sa.bla/	ensablâmes /ɑ̃.sa.blam/	ensablâtes /ɑ̃.sa.blat/	ensablèrent /ɑ̃.sa.blɛʁ/
	future	ensablerai /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁe/	ensableras /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁa/	ensablera /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁa/	ensablerons /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁɔ̃/	ensablerez /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁe/	ensableront /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ensablerais /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁɛ/	ensablerais /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁɛ/	ensablerait /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁɛ/	ensablerions /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	ensableriez /ɑ̃.sa.blə.ʁje/	ensableraient /ɑ̃.sa.blə.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	ensable /ɑ̃.sabl/	ensables /ɑ̃.sabl/	ensable /ɑ̃.sabl/	ensablions /ɑ̃.sa.bli.jɔ̃/	ensabliez /ɑ̃.sa.bli.je/	ensablent /ɑ̃.sabl/
	imperfect2	ensablasse /ɑ̃.sa.blas/	ensablasses /ɑ̃.sa.blas/	ensablât /ɑ̃.sa.bla/	ensablassions /ɑ̃.sa.bla.sjɔ̃/	ensablassiez /ɑ̃.sa.bla.sje/	ensablassent /ɑ̃.sa.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ensable /ɑ̃.sabl/	—	ensablons /ɑ̃.sa.blɔ̃/	ensablez /ɑ̃.sa.ble/	—
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).

Further reading

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