envoler

French

Etymology

From en (“from”) + voler. Unrelated to Latin involāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vɔ.le/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: envolai, envolé, envolée, envolées, envolés, envolez

Verb

envoler

1. (reflexive) to take off, to take flight
2. (reflexive) to blow away
3. (reflexive) to fly (of time)
4. (reflexive, colloquial) to vanish, disappear, walk (to be stolen)

Conjugation

Conjugation of s'envoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'envoler
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s’envolant /sɑ̃.vɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		envolé /ɑ̃.vɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’envole /mɑ̃.vɔl/	t’envoles /tɑ̃.vɔl/	s’envole /sɑ̃.vɔl/	nous envolons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lɔ̃/	vous envolez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.le/	s’envolent /sɑ̃.vɔl/
	imperfect	m’envolais /mɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ/	t’envolais /tɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ/	s’envolait /sɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ/	nous envolions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.ljɔ̃/	vous envoliez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lje/	s’envolaient /sɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	m’envolai /mɑ̃.vɔ.le/	t’envolas /tɑ̃.vɔ.la/	s’envola /sɑ̃.vɔ.la/	nous envolâmes /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lam/	vous envolâtes /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lat/	s’envolèrent /sɑ̃.vɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	m’envolerai /mɑ̃.vɔl.ʁe/	t’envoleras /tɑ̃.vɔl.ʁa/	s’envolera /sɑ̃.vɔl.ʁa/	nous envolerons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔl.ʁɔ̃/	vous envolerez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔl.ʁe/	s’envoleront /sɑ̃.vɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	m’envolerais /mɑ̃.vɔl.ʁɛ/	t’envolerais /tɑ̃.vɔl.ʁɛ/	s’envolerait /sɑ̃.vɔl.ʁɛ/	nous envolerions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	vous envoleriez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lə.ʁje/	s’envoleraient /sɑ̃.vɔl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’envole /mɑ̃.vɔl/	t’envoles /tɑ̃.vɔl/	s’envole /sɑ̃.vɔl/	nous envolions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.ljɔ̃/	vous envoliez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.lje/	s’envolent /sɑ̃.vɔl/
	imperfect2	m’envolasse /mɑ̃.vɔ.las/	t’envolasses /tɑ̃.vɔ.las/	s’envolât /sɑ̃.vɔ.la/	nous envolassions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	vous envolassiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.vɔ.la.sje/	s’envolassent /sɑ̃.vɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	envole-toi /ɑ̃.vɔl.twa/	—	envolons-nous /ɑ̃.vɔ.lɔ̃.nu/	envolez-vous /ɑ̃.vɔ.le.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Quotations

• 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Premières méditations poétiques‎^[1]:

  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 ?

  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?

Related terms

• voler

Further reading

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