envoyer

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  inviāre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin via (“road, path”). Compare Spanish, Portuguese, Occitan, and Catalan enviar, Italian inviare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vwa.je/

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Verb

envoyer

1. to send
2. (reflexive) to gulp down with relish

Conjugation

This verb is one of a few verbs that conjugate like noyer, except in the future and conditional, where they conjugate like voir.

Conjugation of envoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	envoyer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	envoyant /ɑ̃.vwa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		envoyé /ɑ̃.vwa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	envoie /ɑ̃.vwa/	envoies /ɑ̃.vwa/	envoie /ɑ̃.vwa/	envoyons /ɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/	envoyez /ɑ̃.vwa.je/	envoient /ɑ̃.vwa/
	imperfect	envoyais /ɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	envoyais /ɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	envoyait /ɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	envoyions /ɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/	envoyiez /ɑ̃.vwaj.je/	envoyaient /ɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/
	past historic2	envoyai /ɑ̃.vwa.je/	envoyas /ɑ̃.vwa.ja/	envoya /ɑ̃.vwa.ja/	envoyâmes /ɑ̃.vwa.jam/	envoyâtes /ɑ̃.vwa.jat/	envoyèrent /ɑ̃.vwa.jɛʁ/
	future	enverrai /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁe/	enverras /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁa/	enverra /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁa/	enverrons /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/	enverrez /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁe/	enverront /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enverrais /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	enverrais /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	enverrait /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	enverrions /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁjɔ̃/	enverriez /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ve.ʁje/	enverraient /ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ve.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	envoie /ɑ̃.vwa/	envoies /ɑ̃.vwa/	envoie /ɑ̃.vwa/	envoyions /ɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/	envoyiez /ɑ̃.vwaj.je/	envoient /ɑ̃.vwa/
	imperfect2	envoyasse /ɑ̃.vwa.jas/	envoyasses /ɑ̃.vwa.jas/	envoyât /ɑ̃.vwa.ja/	envoyassions /ɑ̃.vwa.ja.sjɔ̃/	envoyassiez /ɑ̃.vwa.ja.sje/	envoyassent /ɑ̃.vwa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	envoie /ɑ̃.vwa/	—	envoyons /ɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/	envoyez /ɑ̃.vwa.je/	—
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).

Synonyms

• expédier

Derived terms

• envoyer promener

Related terms

• envoi
• envoyeur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• renvoyé