enquérir
French
Etymology
From Old French enquerre (with a conjugation change, as with quérir) < Latin inquīrere, present active infinitive of inquīrō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ke.ʁiʁ/
Conjugation
Conjugation of s'enquérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | s'enquérant /sɑ̃.ke.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | enquis /ɑ̃.ki/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | s'enquérir | ||||||
| compound | s'être + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | s'enquérant /sɑ̃.ke.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | s'étant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | m'enquiers /mɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
t'enquiers /tɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
s'enquiert /sɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
nous enquérons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.ke.ʁɔ̃/ |
vous enquérez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.ke.ʁe/ |
s'enquièrent /sɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | m'enquérais /mɑ̃.ke.ʁɛ/ |
t'enquérais /tɑ̃.ke.ʁɛ/ |
s'enquérait /sɑ̃.ke.ʁɛ/ |
nous enquérions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous enquériez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.ke.ʁje/ |
s'enquéraient /sɑ̃.ke.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | m'enquis /mɑ̃.ki/ |
t'enquis /tɑ̃.ki/ |
s'enquit /sɑ̃.ki/ |
nous enquîmes /nu.z‿ɑ̃.kim/ |
vous enquîtes /vu.z‿ɑ̃.kit/ |
s'enquirent /sɑ̃.kiʁ/ | |
| future | m'enquerrai /mɑ̃.kɛ.ʁe/ |
t'enquerras /tɑ̃.kɛ.ʁa/ |
s'enquerra /sɑ̃.kɛ.ʁa/ |
nous enquerrons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
vous enquerrez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.kɛ.ʁe/ |
s'enquerront /sɑ̃.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | m'enquerrais /mɑ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
t'enquerrais /tɑ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
s'enquerrait /sɑ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
nous enquerrions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.kɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous enquerriez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.kɛ.ʁje/ |
s'enquerraient /sɑ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | m'enquière /mɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
t'enquières /tɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
s'enquière /sɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
nous enquérions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous enquériez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.ke.ʁje/ |
s'enquièrent /sɑ̃.kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | m'enquisse /mɑ̃.kis/ |
t'enquisses /tɑ̃.kis/ |
s'enquît /sɑ̃.ki/ |
nous enquissions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.ki.sjɔ̃/ |
vous enquissiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.ki.sje/ |
s'enquissent /sɑ̃.kis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | enquiers-toi /ɑ̃.kjɛʁ.twa/ |
— | enquérons-nous /ɑ̃.ke.ʁɔ̃.nu/ |
enquérez-vous /ɑ̃.ke.ʁe.vu/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Synonyms
- se renseigner sur
- s'informer de
- enquêter sur
Derived terms
- enquête (n.): investigation, inquest
- enquêter (vi.): investigate
Further reading
- “enquérir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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