entamer

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Provençal entamenar, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin intaminare, from Latin in- + tangere + -are.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ta.me/

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Verb

entamer

1. to cut into (something)
2. to eat into (savings etc.); to undermine (credibility)
3. to remove a small piece of something
4. to start, to begin, initiate

Conjugation

Conjugation of entamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entamer
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

• rentamer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rentame, rentamé