environner

French

Etymology

From environ +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/

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Verb

environner

1. (transitive) to surround, to encircle

Conjugation

Conjugation of environner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	environner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	environnant /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		environné /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	environne /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	environnes /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	environne /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	environnons /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɔ̃/	environnez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/	environnent /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/
	imperfect	environnais /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɛ/	environnais /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɛ/	environnait /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɛ/	environnions /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.njɔ̃/	environniez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nje/	environnaient /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	environnai /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/	environnas /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.na/	environna /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.na/	environnâmes /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nam/	environnâtes /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nat/	environnèrent /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	environnerai /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁe/	environneras /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁa/	environnera /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁa/	environnerons /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁɔ̃/	environnerez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁe/	environneront /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	environnerais /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁɛ/	environnerais /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁɛ/	environnerait /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.ʁɛ/	environnerions /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	environneriez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nə.ʁje/	environneraient /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.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	environne /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	environnes /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	environne /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	environnions /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.njɔ̃/	environniez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nje/	environnent /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/
	imperfect2	environnasse /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nas/	environnasses /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nas/	environnât /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.na/	environnassions /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	environnassiez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.na.sje/	environnassent /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	environne /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn/	—	environnons /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.nɔ̃/	environnez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/	—
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

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