envoler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɑ̃vɔle/, X-SAMPA: /A~vOle/
- Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: envolai, envolé, envolée, envolées, envolés, envolez
Verb
envoler
- (reflexive) to take off (of plane); to fly away (of bird)
- (reflexive) to blow away
- (reflexive) to fly (of time)
- (reflexive, colloquial) to vanish, disappear, walk (to be stolen)
Quotations
- 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Premières méditations poétiquesfr.Wikisource:
- Temps jaloux, se peut-il que ces moments d’ivresse, ¶ Où l’amour à longs flots nous verse le bonheur, ¶ S’envolent loin de nous de la même vitesse ¶ Que les jours de malheur ?
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- Jealous time, could it be that these drunken moments ¶ Where love in long floods pours us enjoyment ¶ Fly off far from us at the same speed ¶ As the days of hardship?
Conjugation
Conjugation of s'envoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | s’envoler | s’être envolé | |||||
| gerund | en s’envolant | en s’étant followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | s’envolant | ||||||
| past participle | envolé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | m’envole | t’envoles | s’envole | nous envolons | vous envolez | s’envolent |
| imperfect | m’envolais | t’envolais | s’envolait | nous envolions | vous envoliez | s’envolaient | |
| past historic | m’envolai | t’envolas | s’envola | nous envolâmes | vous envolâtes | s’envolèrent | |
| future | m’envolerai | t’envoleras | s’envolera | nous envolerons | vous envolerez | s’envoleront | |
| conditional | m’envolerais | t’envolerais | s’envolerait | nous envolerions | vous envoleriez | s’envoleraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use present tense of s’être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of s’être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of s’être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of s’être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of s’être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | m’envole | t’envoles | s’envole | nous envolions | vous envoliez | s’envolent |
| imperfect | m’envolasse | t’envolasses | s’envolât | nous envolassions | vous envolassiez | s’envolassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of s’être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of s’être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | envole-toi | — | envolons-nous | envolez-vous | — | ||