envelopper

French

Etymology

From Middle French enveloper, from Old French envoloper, anveloper, from en- +‎ voluper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare; Old Italian alternate form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vlopp- (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wrappaną, *wlappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). More at in, wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pe/

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Verb

envelopper

1. to wrap someone or something, to cover.
2. to envelop

Conjugation

Conjugation of envelopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	envelopper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enveloppant /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enveloppé /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enveloppe /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	enveloppes /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	enveloppe /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	enveloppons /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɔ̃/	enveloppez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pe/	enveloppent /ɑ̃.vlɔp/
	imperfect	enveloppais /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɛ/	enveloppais /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɛ/	enveloppait /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɛ/	enveloppions /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pjɔ̃/	enveloppiez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pje/	enveloppaient /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	enveloppai /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pe/	enveloppas /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pa/	enveloppa /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pa/	enveloppâmes /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pam/	enveloppâtes /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pat/	enveloppèrent /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	envelopperai /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁe/	envelopperas /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁa/	enveloppera /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁa/	envelopperons /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁɔ̃/	envelopperez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁe/	envelopperont /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	envelopperais /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁɛ/	envelopperais /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁɛ/	envelopperait /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁɛ/	envelopperions /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	envelopperiez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pə.ʁje/	envelopperaient /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pʁɛ/
(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	enveloppe /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	enveloppes /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	enveloppe /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	enveloppions /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pjɔ̃/	enveloppiez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pje/	enveloppent /ɑ̃.vlɔp/
	imperfect2	enveloppasse /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pas/	enveloppasses /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pas/	enveloppât /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pa/	enveloppassions /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	enveloppassiez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pa.sje/	enveloppassent /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enveloppe /ɑ̃.vlɔp/	—	enveloppons /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pɔ̃/	enveloppez /ɑ̃.vlɔ.pe/	—
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

• développer

Further reading

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