enhardir

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ hardi +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.aʁ.diʁ/
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Verb

enhardir

to embolden

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 enhardir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	enhardir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	enhardissant /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enhardi /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enhardis /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardis /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardit /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardissons /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɔ̃/	enhardissez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.se/	enhardissent /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/
	imperfect	enhardissais /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɛ/	enhardissais /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɛ/	enhardissait /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɛ/	enhardissions /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	enhardissiez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sje/	enhardissaient /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic²	enhardis /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardis /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardit /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardîmes /ɑ̃.aʁ.dim/	enhardîtes /ɑ̃.aʁ.dit/	enhardirent /ɑ̃.aʁ.diʁ/
	future	enhardirai /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁe/	enhardiras /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁa/	enhardira /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁa/	enhardirons /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	enhardirez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁe/	enhardiront /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enhardirais /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁɛ/	enhardirais /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁɛ/	enhardirait /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁɛ/	enhardirions /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	enhardiriez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.ʁje/	enhardiraient /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.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	enhardisse /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/	enhardisses /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/	enhardisse /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/	enhardissions /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	enhardissiez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sje/	enhardissent /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	enhardisse /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/	enhardisses /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/	enhardît /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	enhardissions /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	enhardissiez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sje/	enhardissent /ɑ̃.aʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	enhardis /ɑ̃.aʁ.di/	—	enhardissons /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.sɔ̃/	enhardissez /ɑ̃.aʁ.di.se/	—
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).