enceinter

French

Etymology

From enceinte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.te/

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Verb

enceinter

1. (transitive, Africa) to make pregnant; to knock up

Conjugation

Conjugation of enceinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enceinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enceintant /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enceinté /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enceinte /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	enceintes /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	enceinte /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	enceintons /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɔ̃/	enceintez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.te/	enceintent /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/
	imperfect	enceintais /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɛ/	enceintais /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɛ/	enceintait /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɛ/	enceintions /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	enceintiez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tje/	enceintaient /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	enceintai /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.te/	enceintas /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.ta/	enceinta /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.ta/	enceintâmes /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tam/	enceintâtes /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tat/	enceintèrent /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	enceinterai /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁe/	enceinteras /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁa/	enceintera /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁa/	enceinterons /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	enceinterez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁe/	enceinteront /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enceinterais /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	enceinterais /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	enceinterait /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	enceinterions /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	enceinteriez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tə.ʁje/	enceinteraient /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	enceinte /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	enceintes /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	enceinte /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	enceintions /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	enceintiez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tje/	enceintent /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	enceintasse /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tas/	enceintasses /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tas/	enceintât /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.ta/	enceintassions /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	enceintassiez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.ta.sje/	enceintassent /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enceinte /ɑ̃.sɛ̃t/	—	enceintons /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.tɔ̃/	enceintez /ɑ̃.sɛ̃.te/	—
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).