enneiger

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ neige (“snow”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒe/ ~ /ɑ̃.ne.ʒe/

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Verb

enneiger

1. to cover in snow

   Antonym: déneiger

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written enneige- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of enneiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enneiger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enneigeant /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enneigé /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒe/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enneige /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	enneiges /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	enneige /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	enneigeons /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɔ̃/	enneigez /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒe/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒe/	enneigent /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/
	imperfect	enneigeais /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɛ/	enneigeais /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɛ/	enneigeait /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɛ/	enneigions /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒjɔ̃/	enneigiez /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒje/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒje/	enneigeaient /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	enneigeai /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒe/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒe/	enneigeas /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒa/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒa/	enneigea /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒa/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒa/	enneigeâmes /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒam/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒam/	enneigeâtes /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒat/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒat/	enneigèrent /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɛʁ/
	future	enneigerai /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁe/	enneigeras /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁa/	enneigera /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁa/	enneigerons /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/	enneigerez /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁe/	enneigeront /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enneigerais /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁɛ/	enneigerais /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁɛ/	enneigerait /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.ʁɛ/	enneigerions /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	enneigeriez /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒə.ʁje/	enneigeraient /ɑ̃.nɛʒ.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	enneige /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	enneiges /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	enneige /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	enneigions /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒjɔ̃/	enneigiez /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒje/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒje/	enneigent /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/
	imperfect2	enneigeasse /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒas/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒas/	enneigeasses /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒas/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒas/	enneigeât /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒa/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒa/	enneigeassions /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	enneigeassiez /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒa.sje/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒa.sje/	enneigeassent /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒas/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enneige /ɑ̃.nɛʒ/	—	enneigeons /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒɔ̃/	enneigez /ɑ̃.nɛ.ʒe/ or /ɑ̃.ne.ʒe/	—
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

• enneigement

Related terms

• déneiger
• neige
• neiger
• reneiger

Further reading

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