obnubiler

French

Etymology

From the Middle French obnubiler, obnubuler, from the Old French obnubler, obnublir, borrowed from Latin obnūbilō, obnūbilāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔb.ny.bi.le/

Verb

obnubiler

1. (transitive) to cloud, to obscure
2. (transitive) to obsess, to engross

Conjugation

Conjugation of obnubiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	obnubiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	obnubilant /ɔb.ny.bi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		obnubilé /ɔb.ny.bi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	obnubile /ɔb.ny.bil/	obnubiles /ɔb.ny.bil/	obnubile /ɔb.ny.bil/	obnubilons /ɔb.ny.bi.lɔ̃/	obnubilez /ɔb.ny.bi.le/	obnubilent /ɔb.ny.bil/
	imperfect	obnubilais /ɔb.ny.bi.lɛ/	obnubilais /ɔb.ny.bi.lɛ/	obnubilait /ɔb.ny.bi.lɛ/	obnubilions /ɔb.ny.bi.ljɔ̃/	obnubiliez /ɔb.ny.bi.lje/	obnubilaient /ɔb.ny.bi.lɛ/
	past historic2	obnubilai /ɔb.ny.bi.le/	obnubilas /ɔb.ny.bi.la/	obnubila /ɔb.ny.bi.la/	obnubilâmes /ɔb.ny.bi.lam/	obnubilâtes /ɔb.ny.bi.lat/	obnubilèrent /ɔb.ny.bi.lɛʁ/
	future	obnubilerai /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁe/	obnubileras /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁa/	obnubilera /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁa/	obnubilerons /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁɔ̃/	obnubilerez /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁe/	obnubileront /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	obnubilerais /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁɛ/	obnubilerais /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁɛ/	obnubilerait /ɔb.ny.bil.ʁɛ/	obnubilerions /ɔb.ny.bi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	obnubileriez /ɔb.ny.bi.lə.ʁje/	obnubileraient /ɔb.ny.bil.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	obnubile /ɔb.ny.bil/	obnubiles /ɔb.ny.bil/	obnubile /ɔb.ny.bil/	obnubilions /ɔb.ny.bi.ljɔ̃/	obnubiliez /ɔb.ny.bi.lje/	obnubilent /ɔb.ny.bil/
	imperfect2	obnubilasse /ɔb.ny.bi.las/	obnubilasses /ɔb.ny.bi.las/	obnubilât /ɔb.ny.bi.la/	obnubilassions /ɔb.ny.bi.la.sjɔ̃/	obnubilassiez /ɔb.ny.bi.la.sje/	obnubilassent /ɔb.ny.bi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	obnubile /ɔb.ny.bil/	—	obnubilons /ɔb.ny.bi.lɔ̃/	obnubilez /ɔb.ny.bi.le/	—
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

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