entailler

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ tailler. Cognate to English entail.

Pronunciation

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Verb

entailler

1. (transitive) to snick, to cut into, to gash (wood, stone, metal, etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of entailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entaillant /ɑ̃.ta.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entaillé /ɑ̃.ta.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entaille /ɑ̃.taj/	entailles /ɑ̃.taj/	entaille /ɑ̃.taj/	entaillons /ɑ̃.ta.jɔ̃/	entaillez /ɑ̃.ta.je/	entaillent /ɑ̃.taj/
	imperfect	entaillais /ɑ̃.ta.jɛ/	entaillais /ɑ̃.ta.jɛ/	entaillait /ɑ̃.ta.jɛ/	entaillions /ɑ̃.taj.jɔ̃/	entailliez /ɑ̃.taj.je/	entaillaient /ɑ̃.ta.jɛ/
	past historic2	entaillai /ɑ̃.ta.je/	entaillas /ɑ̃.ta.ja/	entailla /ɑ̃.ta.ja/	entaillâmes /ɑ̃.ta.jam/	entaillâtes /ɑ̃.ta.jat/	entaillèrent /ɑ̃.ta.jɛʁ/
	future	entaillerai /ɑ̃.taj.ʁe/	entailleras /ɑ̃.taj.ʁa/	entaillera /ɑ̃.taj.ʁa/	entaillerons /ɑ̃.taj.ʁɔ̃/	entaillerez /ɑ̃.taj.ʁe/	entailleront /ɑ̃.taj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entaillerais /ɑ̃.taj.ʁɛ/	entaillerais /ɑ̃.taj.ʁɛ/	entaillerait /ɑ̃.taj.ʁɛ/	entaillerions /ɑ̃.ta.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	entailleriez /ɑ̃.ta.jə.ʁje/	entailleraient /ɑ̃.taj.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	entaille /ɑ̃.taj/	entailles /ɑ̃.taj/	entaille /ɑ̃.taj/	entaillions /ɑ̃.taj.jɔ̃/	entailliez /ɑ̃.taj.je/	entaillent /ɑ̃.taj/
	imperfect2	entaillasse /ɑ̃.ta.jas/	entaillasses /ɑ̃.ta.jas/	entaillât /ɑ̃.ta.ja/	entaillassions /ɑ̃.ta.ja.sjɔ̃/	entaillassiez /ɑ̃.ta.ja.sje/	entaillassent /ɑ̃.ta.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entaille /ɑ̃.taj/	—	entaillons /ɑ̃.ta.jɔ̃/	entaillez /ɑ̃.ta.je/	—
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).

Related terms

• entaille
• entailleur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• aillèrent, allièrent, éraillent, tenailler