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enfouir
enfouir
French
Verb
enfouir
- (transitive) to bury
 
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
  Conjugation of enfouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | enfouir | avoir enfoui | |||||
| gerund | en enfouissant | en ayant enfoui | |||||
| present participle |  enfouissant /ɑ̃.fwi.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  enfoui /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  enfouis /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
 enfouis /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
 enfouit /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
 enfouissons /ɑ̃.fwi.sɔ̃/  | 
 enfouissez /ɑ̃.fwi.se/  | 
 enfouissent /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
| imperfect |  enfouissais /ɑ̃.fwi.sɛ/  | 
 enfouissais /ɑ̃.fwi.sɛ/  | 
 enfouissait /ɑ̃.fwi.sɛ/  | 
 enfouissions /ɑ̃.fwi.sjɔ̃/  | 
 enfouissiez /ɑ̃.fwi.sje/  | 
 enfouissaient /ɑ̃.fwi.sɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  enfouis /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
enfouis /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
enfouit /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
enfouîmes /ɑ̃.fwim/  | 
enfouîtes /ɑ̃.fwit/  | 
enfouirent /ɑ̃.fwiʁ/  | 
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| future |  enfouirai /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁe/  | 
 enfouiras /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁa/  | 
 enfouira /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁa/  | 
 enfouirons /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 enfouirez /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁe/  | 
 enfouiront /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  enfouirais /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁɛ/  | 
 enfouirais /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁɛ/  | 
 enfouirait /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁɛ/  | 
 enfouirions /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 enfouiriez /ɑ̃.fwi.ʁje/  | 
 enfouiraient /ɑ̃.fwi.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 |  enfouisse /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
 enfouisses /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
 enfouisse /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
 enfouissions /ɑ̃.fwi.sjɔ̃/  | 
 enfouissiez /ɑ̃.fwi.sje/  | 
 enfouissent /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
enfouisse /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
enfouisses /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
enfouît /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
enfouissions /ɑ̃.fwi.sjɔ̃/  | 
enfouissiez /ɑ̃.fwi.sje/  | 
enfouissent /ɑ̃.fwis/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  enfouis /ɑ̃.fwi/  | 
— |  enfouissons /ɑ̃.fwi.sɔ̃/  | 
 enfouissez /ɑ̃.fwi.se/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||