enorgueillir

French edit

Etymology edit

From en- +‎ orgueil +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jiʁ/
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Verb edit

enorgueillir

(transitive) to make [someone] proud
(reflexive) to boast, to pride oneself on

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 enorgueillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	enorgueillir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	enorgueillissant /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enorgueilli /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enorgueillis /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillis /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillit /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillissons /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɔ̃/	enorgueillissez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.se/	enorgueillissent /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/
	imperfect	enorgueillissais /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɛ/	enorgueillissais /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɛ/	enorgueillissait /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɛ/	enorgueillissions /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sjɔ̃/	enorgueillissiez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sje/	enorgueillissaient /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɛ/
	past historic²	enorgueillis /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillis /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillit /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillîmes /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jim/	enorgueillîtes /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jit/	enorgueillirent /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jiʁ/
	future	enorgueillirai /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁe/	enorgueilliras /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁa/	enorgueillira /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁa/	enorgueillirons /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁɔ̃/	enorgueillirez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁe/	enorgueilliront /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enorgueillirais /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁɛ/	enorgueillirais /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁɛ/	enorgueillirait /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁɛ/	enorgueillirions /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁjɔ̃/	enorgueilliriez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.ʁje/	enorgueilliraient /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.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	enorgueillisse /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/	enorgueillisses /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/	enorgueillisse /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/	enorgueillissions /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sjɔ̃/	enorgueillissiez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sje/	enorgueillissent /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	enorgueillisse /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/	enorgueillisses /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/	enorgueillît /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	enorgueillissions /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sjɔ̃/	enorgueillissiez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sje/	enorgueillissent /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.jis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	enorgueillis /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji/	—	enorgueillissons /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.sɔ̃/	enorgueillissez /ɑ̃.nɔʁ.ɡœ.ji.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).