enjoliver

French

Etymology

From en- + Old French jolif (“pretty”) (Modern French joli) + -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

enjoliver

1. to embellish, prettify

Conjugation

Conjugation of enjoliver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enjoliver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enjolivant /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enjolivé /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enjolive /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	enjolives /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	enjolive /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	enjolivons /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɔ̃/	enjolivez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve/	enjolivent /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/
	imperfect	enjolivais /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɛ/	enjolivais /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɛ/	enjolivait /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɛ/	enjolivions /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vjɔ̃/	enjoliviez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vje/	enjolivaient /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɛ/
	past historic2	enjolivai /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve/	enjolivas /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.va/	enjoliva /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.va/	enjolivâmes /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vam/	enjolivâtes /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vat/	enjolivèrent /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɛʁ/
	future	enjoliverai /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁe/	enjoliveras /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁa/	enjolivera /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁa/	enjoliverons /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁɔ̃/	enjoliverez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁe/	enjoliveront /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enjoliverais /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁɛ/	enjoliverais /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁɛ/	enjoliverait /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁɛ/	enjoliverions /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.və.ʁjɔ̃/	enjoliveriez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.və.ʁje/	enjoliveraient /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vʁɛ/
(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	enjolive /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	enjolives /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	enjolive /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	enjolivions /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vjɔ̃/	enjoliviez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vje/	enjolivent /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/
	imperfect2	enjolivasse /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vas/	enjolivasses /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vas/	enjolivât /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.va/	enjolivassions /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.va.sjɔ̃/	enjolivassiez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.va.sje/	enjolivassent /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enjolive /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.liv/	—	enjolivons /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.vɔ̃/	enjolivez /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve/	—
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).

Derived terms

• enjoliveur

Further reading

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