enflammer

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ flamme +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.fla.me/

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Verb

enflammer

1. to set fire to, to set on fire
2. to inflame, to fuel (e.g. a debate, hatred)
3. (reflexive, s'enflammer) to catch fire

Conjugation

Conjugation of enflammer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enflammer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enflammant /ɑ̃.fla.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enflammé /ɑ̃.fla.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/	enflammes /ɑ̃.flam/	enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/	enflammons /ɑ̃.fla.mɔ̃/	enflammez /ɑ̃.fla.me/	enflamment /ɑ̃.flam/
	imperfect	enflammais /ɑ̃.fla.mɛ/	enflammais /ɑ̃.fla.mɛ/	enflammait /ɑ̃.fla.mɛ/	enflammions /ɑ̃.fla.mjɔ̃/	enflammiez /ɑ̃.fla.mje/	enflammaient /ɑ̃.fla.mɛ/
	past historic2	enflammai /ɑ̃.fla.me/	enflammas /ɑ̃.fla.ma/	enflamma /ɑ̃.fla.ma/	enflammâmes /ɑ̃.fla.mam/	enflammâtes /ɑ̃.fla.mat/	enflammèrent /ɑ̃.fla.mɛʁ/
	future	enflammerai /ɑ̃.flam.ʁe/	enflammeras /ɑ̃.flam.ʁa/	enflammera /ɑ̃.flam.ʁa/	enflammerons /ɑ̃.flam.ʁɔ̃/	enflammerez /ɑ̃.flam.ʁe/	enflammeront /ɑ̃.flam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enflammerais /ɑ̃.flam.ʁɛ/	enflammerais /ɑ̃.flam.ʁɛ/	enflammerait /ɑ̃.flam.ʁɛ/	enflammerions /ɑ̃.fla.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	enflammeriez /ɑ̃.fla.mə.ʁje/	enflammeraient /ɑ̃.flam.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	enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/	enflammes /ɑ̃.flam/	enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/	enflammions /ɑ̃.fla.mjɔ̃/	enflammiez /ɑ̃.fla.mje/	enflamment /ɑ̃.flam/
	imperfect2	enflammasse /ɑ̃.fla.mas/	enflammasses /ɑ̃.fla.mas/	enflammât /ɑ̃.fla.ma/	enflammassions /ɑ̃.fla.ma.sjɔ̃/	enflammassiez /ɑ̃.fla.ma.sje/	enflammassent /ɑ̃.fla.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/	—	enflammons /ɑ̃.fla.mɔ̃/	enflammez /ɑ̃.fla.me/	—
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

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