enchérir
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
enchérir
- (transitive) to make more expensive
- (transitive) to bid; to make a bid (at auction etc.)
- (intransitive) to go up (in price), become more expensive
Conjugation edit
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of enchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | enchérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | enchérissant /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | enchéri /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchérit /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchérissons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
enchérissez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
enchérissent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | enchérissais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
enchérissais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
enchérissait /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
enchérissions /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
enchérissiez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
enchérissaient /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchérit /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchérîmes /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/ |
enchérîtes /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/ |
enchérirent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | enchérirai /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
enchériras /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
enchérira /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
enchérirons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
enchérirez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
enchériront /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | enchérirais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
enchérirais /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
enchérirait /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
enchéririons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
enchéririez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
enchériraient /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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 | enchérisse /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
enchérisses /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
enchérisse /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
enchérissions /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
enchérissiez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
enchérissent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | enchérisse /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
enchérisses /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
enchérît /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
enchérissions /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
enchérissiez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
enchérissent /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | enchéris /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | enchérissons /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
enchérissez /ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
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Further reading edit
- “enchérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.