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enflammer
enflammer
French
Verb
enflammer
- to set fire to, to set on fire
 - to inflame, to fuel (e.g. a debate, hatred)
 - (reflexive, s'enflammer) to catch fire
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of enflammer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | enflammer | avoir enflammé | |||||
| gerund | en enflammant | en ayant enflammé | |||||
| present participle |  enflammant /ɑ̃.fla.mɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  enflammé /ɑ̃.fla.me/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  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/  | 
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| past historic1 |  enflammai /ɑ̃.fla.me/  | 
enflammas /ɑ̃.fla.ma/  | 
enflamma /ɑ̃.fla.ma/  | 
enflammâmes /ɑ̃.fla.mam/  | 
enflammâtes /ɑ̃.fla.mat/  | 
enflammèrent /ɑ̃.fla.mɛʁ/  | 
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| 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/  | 
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| 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/  | 
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|  compound tenses  | 
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/  | 
 enflammes /ɑ̃.flam/  | 
 enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/  | 
 enflammions /ɑ̃.fla.mjɔ̃/  | 
 enflammiez /ɑ̃.fla.mje/  | 
 enflamment /ɑ̃.flam/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
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/  | 
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|  compound tenses  | 
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — |  enflamme /ɑ̃.flam/  | 
— |  enflammons /ɑ̃.fla.mɔ̃/  | 
 enflammez /ɑ̃.fla.me/  | 
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