entourer

French

Etymology

From entour (“around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tu.ʁe/

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Verb

entourer

1. to surround
   • 2005, Marc-André Wagner, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques: paganisme, christianisme et traditions [The Horse in Germanic Beliefs: Paganism, Christianity, and Traditions], Honoré Champion, →ISBN:

     Le dernier type est le "cheval-jupon", un terme que l’ethnologue réserve à un déguisement pour une personne, constitué comme suit : le corps de la personne est entouré à la taille par un tissu — le jupon — recouvrant l’essentiel de ses jambes, une tête du cheval en bois […]

     The last type is the "hobby horse", a term which Ethnologue reserves for a disguise for a person, made as follows: the body of the person is surrounded at the waist by a cloth — the skirt — covering most of his legs; a horse's head of wood […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of entourer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entourer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entourant /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entouré /ɑ̃.tu.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entoure /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	entoures /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	entoure /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	entourons /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɔ̃/	entourez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁe/	entourent /ɑ̃.tuʁ/
	imperfect	entourais /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ/	entourais /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ/	entourait /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ/	entourions /ɑ̃.tu.ʁjɔ̃/	entouriez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁje/	entouraient /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	entourai /ɑ̃.tu.ʁe/	entouras /ɑ̃.tu.ʁa/	entoura /ɑ̃.tu.ʁa/	entourâmes /ɑ̃.tu.ʁam/	entourâtes /ɑ̃.tu.ʁat/	entourèrent /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛʁ/
	future	entourerai /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁe/	entoureras /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁa/	entourera /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁa/	entourerons /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	entourerez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁe/	entoureront /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entourerais /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	entourerais /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	entourerait /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	entourerions /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	entoureriez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.ʁje/	entoureraient /ɑ̃.tu.ʁə.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	entoure /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	entoures /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	entoure /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	entourions /ɑ̃.tu.ʁjɔ̃/	entouriez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁje/	entourent /ɑ̃.tuʁ/
	imperfect2	entourasse /ɑ̃.tu.ʁas/	entourasses /ɑ̃.tu.ʁas/	entourât /ɑ̃.tu.ʁa/	entourassions /ɑ̃.tu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	entourassiez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁa.sje/	entourassent /ɑ̃.tu.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entoure /ɑ̃.tuʁ/	—	entourons /ɑ̃.tu.ʁɔ̃/	entourez /ɑ̃.tu.ʁe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• retourne, retourné
• rouèrent