enrouiller

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ rouille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

enrouiller

1. (rare, transitive) to rust, rust up

   Synonym: (more common) rouiller

Conjugation

Conjugation of enrouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enrouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enrouillant /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enrouillé /ɑ̃.ʁu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enrouille /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	enrouilles /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	enrouille /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	enrouillons /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɔ̃/	enrouillez /ɑ̃.ʁu.je/	enrouillent /ɑ̃.ʁuj/
	imperfect	enrouillais /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɛ/	enrouillais /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɛ/	enrouillait /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɛ/	enrouillions /ɑ̃.ʁuj.jɔ̃/	enrouilliez /ɑ̃.ʁuj.je/	enrouillaient /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɛ/
	past historic2	enrouillai /ɑ̃.ʁu.je/	enrouillas /ɑ̃.ʁu.ja/	enrouilla /ɑ̃.ʁu.ja/	enrouillâmes /ɑ̃.ʁu.jam/	enrouillâtes /ɑ̃.ʁu.jat/	enrouillèrent /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɛʁ/
	future	enrouillerai /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁe/	enrouilleras /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁa/	enrouillera /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁa/	enrouillerons /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁɔ̃/	enrouillerez /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁe/	enrouilleront /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enrouillerais /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁɛ/	enrouillerais /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁɛ/	enrouillerait /ɑ̃.ʁuj.ʁɛ/	enrouillerions /ɑ̃.ʁu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	enrouilleriez /ɑ̃.ʁu.jə.ʁje/	enrouilleraient /ɑ̃.ʁuj.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	enrouille /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	enrouilles /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	enrouille /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	enrouillions /ɑ̃.ʁuj.jɔ̃/	enrouilliez /ɑ̃.ʁuj.je/	enrouillent /ɑ̃.ʁuj/
	imperfect2	enrouillasse /ɑ̃.ʁu.jas/	enrouillasses /ɑ̃.ʁu.jas/	enrouillât /ɑ̃.ʁu.ja/	enrouillassions /ɑ̃.ʁu.ja.sjɔ̃/	enrouillassiez /ɑ̃.ʁu.ja.sje/	enrouillassent /ɑ̃.ʁu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enrouille /ɑ̃.ʁuj/	—	enrouillons /ɑ̃.ʁu.jɔ̃/	enrouillez /ɑ̃.ʁu.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).

Further reading

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