entamer
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Provençal entamenar, from Latin intaminare, from Latin in- + tangere + -are.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]entamer
- to cut into (something)
- entamer la peau ― cut into the skin
- to remove a small piece of something
- entamer un pain, un melon, un pâté ― cut a piece of bread, melon, pâté
- (card games) to lead (play the first card)
- (figurative) to eat into (savings etc.); to undermine (credibility)
- 2024 (13 February), Nicolas Revise, "Victoire démocrate à une législative à New York pour remplacer George Santos", La Presse:
- Avec cette victoire du démocrate centriste Tom Suozzi contre la républicaine Mazi Pilip, [...] les démocrates entament encore un peu plus la très mince majorité du Parti républicain de Donald Trump à la Chambre [...]
- With this victory of the centrist Democrat Tom Suozzi against the Republican Mazi Pilip, the Democrats are eating a little bit further into the very slim majority held by Donald Trump's Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
- 2024 (13 February), Nicolas Revise, "Victoire démocrate à une législative à New York pour remplacer George Santos", La Presse:
- (figurative) to start, to begin, initiate
- Synonym: commencer
- 1954, Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse:
- Comme elle ne me prêtait pas attention, je m’installai tranquillement sur une marche avec une tasse de café et une orange et entamai les délices du matin : je mordais une orange, un jus sucré giclait dans ma bouche ; une gorgée de café noir brûlant, aussitôt, et à nouveau la fraîcheur du fruit.
- As she was paying no attention to me, I installed myself tranquilly on a step with a cup of coffee and an orange and began my morning ritual: I bit into an orange, a sugary juice spurting into my mouth; a swallow of burning hot black coffee, immediately after, and then again the freshness of the fruit.
- 2017, Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors, Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques, Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172 footnote 232:
- Malgré l’absence de traces du mot grec dans les dictionnaires du copte, on peut suspecter […] que les Arabes aient trouvé ces notions et les mots correspondants pendant leur longue occupation de l’Égypte avant d’entamer la conquête de l’Ouest.
- Notwithstanding the absence of any trace of the Greek word in the Coptic dictionaries one can assume that the Arabs have found these notions and corresponding words during their long occupation of Egypt before going over to the conquest of the West.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of entamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | entamer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | entamant /ɑ̃.ta.mɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | entamé /ɑ̃.ta.me/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entames /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entamons /ɑ̃.ta.mɔ̃/ |
entamez /ɑ̃.ta.me/ |
entament /ɑ̃.tam/ |
imperfect | entamais /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ |
entamais /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ |
entamait /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ |
entamions /ɑ̃.ta.mjɔ̃/ |
entamiez /ɑ̃.ta.mje/ |
entamaient /ɑ̃.ta.mɛ/ | |
past historic2 | entamai /ɑ̃.ta.me/ |
entamas /ɑ̃.ta.ma/ |
entama /ɑ̃.ta.ma/ |
entamâmes /ɑ̃.ta.mam/ |
entamâtes /ɑ̃.ta.mat/ |
entamèrent /ɑ̃.ta.mɛʁ/ | |
future | entamerai /ɑ̃.tam.ʁe/ |
entameras /ɑ̃.tam.ʁa/ |
entamera /ɑ̃.tam.ʁa/ |
entamerons /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɔ̃/ |
entamerez /ɑ̃.tam.ʁe/ |
entameront /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | entamerais /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɛ/ |
entamerais /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɛ/ |
entamerait /ɑ̃.tam.ʁɛ/ |
entamerions /ɑ̃.ta.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
entameriez /ɑ̃.ta.mə.ʁje/ |
entameraient /ɑ̃.tam.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 | entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entames /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
entamions /ɑ̃.ta.mjɔ̃/ |
entamiez /ɑ̃.ta.mje/ |
entament /ɑ̃.tam/ |
imperfect2 | entamasse /ɑ̃.ta.mas/ |
entamasses /ɑ̃.ta.mas/ |
entamât /ɑ̃.ta.ma/ |
entamassions /ɑ̃.ta.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
entamassiez /ɑ̃.ta.ma.sje/ |
entamassent /ɑ̃.ta.mas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | entame /ɑ̃.tam/ |
— | entamons /ɑ̃.ta.mɔ̃/ |
entamez /ɑ̃.ta.me/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “entamer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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