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enlever
enlever
French
Verb
enlever
- (transitive) to remove, take off, take away, clear
- (transitive) to take off, remove (clothes)
- Elle enleva ses lunettes et j'aperçus sa beauté.
- She took off her glasses and I glimpsed her beauty.
- Elle enleva ses lunettes et j'aperçus sa beauté.
- (transitive) to kidnap, abduct
- (transitive) to win, capture, carry off
- (reflexive) to come out, wash off
Derived terms
- enlèvement
- enlever la poussière
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il enlève rather than *il enleve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of enlever (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | enlever | avoir enlevé | |||||
| gerund | en enlevant | en ayant enlevé | |||||
| present participle | enlevant /ɑ̃l.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | enlevé /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlèves /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlevons /ɑ̃l.vɔ̃/ |
enlevez /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
enlèvent /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
| imperfect | enlevais /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
enlevais /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
enlevait /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
enlevions /ɑ̃.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
enleviez /ɑ̃.lə.vje/ |
enlevaient /ɑ̃l.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | enlevai /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
enlevas /ɑ̃l.va/ |
enleva /ɑ̃l.va/ |
enlevâmes /ɑ̃l.vam/ |
enlevâtes /ɑ̃l.vat/ |
enlevèrent /ɑ̃l.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | enlèverai /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁe/ |
enlèveras /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁa/ |
enlèvera /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁa/ |
enlèverons /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
enlèverez /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁe/ |
enlèveront /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | enlèverais /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
enlèverais /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
enlèverait /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
enlèverions /ɑ̃.lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
enlèveriez /ɑ̃.lɛ.və.ʁje/ |
enlèveraient /ɑ̃.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
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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 | enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlèves /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
enlevions /ɑ̃.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
enleviez /ɑ̃.lə.vje/ |
enlèvent /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
| imperfect1 |
enlevasse /ɑ̃l.vas/ |
enlevasses /ɑ̃l.vas/ |
enlevât /ɑ̃l.va/ |
enlevassions /ɑ̃l.va.sjɔ̃/ |
enlevassiez /ɑ̃l.va.sje/ |
enlevassent /ɑ̃l.vas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | enlève /ɑ̃.lɛv/ |
— | enlevons /ɑ̃l.vɔ̃/ |
enlevez /ɑ̃l.ve/ |
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