enlaidir

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ laidir (“to become ugly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.lɛ.diʁ/, /ɑ̃.le.diʁ/

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Verb

enlaidir

1. (transitive) to uglify

Conjugation

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 enlaidir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enlaidir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enlaidissant /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enlaidi /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enlaidis /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidis /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidit /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidissons /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɔ̃/	enlaidissez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.se/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.se/	enlaidissent /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/
	imperfect	enlaidissais /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɛ/	enlaidissais /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɛ/	enlaidissait /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɛ/	enlaidissions /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sjɔ̃/	enlaidissiez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sje/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sje/	enlaidissaient /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	enlaidis /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidis /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidit /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidîmes /ɑ̃.lɛ.dim/ or /ɑ̃.le.dim/	enlaidîtes /ɑ̃.lɛ.dit/ or /ɑ̃.le.dit/	enlaidirent /ɑ̃.lɛ.diʁ/ or /ɑ̃.le.diʁ/
	future	enlaidirai /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁe/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁe/	enlaidiras /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁa/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁa/	enlaidira /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁa/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁa/	enlaidirons /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁɔ̃/	enlaidirez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁe/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁe/	enlaidiront /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enlaidirais /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁɛ/	enlaidirais /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁɛ/	enlaidirait /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁɛ/	enlaidirions /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁjɔ̃/	enlaidiriez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.ʁje/	enlaidiraient /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.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	enlaidisse /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/	enlaidisses /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/	enlaidisse /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/	enlaidissions /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sjɔ̃/	enlaidissiez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sje/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sje/	enlaidissent /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/
	imperfect2	enlaidisse /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/	enlaidisses /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/	enlaidît /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	enlaidissions /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sjɔ̃/	enlaidissiez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sje/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sje/	enlaidissent /ɑ̃.lɛ.dis/ or /ɑ̃.le.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enlaidis /ɑ̃.lɛ.di/ or /ɑ̃.le.di/	—	enlaidissons /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.sɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.sɔ̃/	enlaidissez /ɑ̃.lɛ.di.se/ or /ɑ̃.le.di.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: 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

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