envier
English
Etymology
Noun
envier (plural enviers)
- One who envies.
- 1816, Francis Gibbon, The public characters of Europe, page 578:
- There was a period, when the enviers of Bernadotte, taking advantage of this kind of popularity which he had obtained, represented him to the Directory as a man dangerous to liberty […]
Translations
one who envies
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From envie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.vje/
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Verb
envier
- (intransitive) to envy
Conjugation
Conjugation of envier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | envier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | enviant /ɑ̃.vjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | envié /ɑ̃.vje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | envie /ɑ̃.vi/ |
envies /ɑ̃.vi/ |
envie /ɑ̃.vi/ |
envions /ɑ̃.vjɔ̃/ |
enviez /ɑ̃.vje/ |
envient /ɑ̃.vi/ |
| imperfect | enviais /ɑ̃.vjɛ/ |
enviais /ɑ̃.vjɛ/ |
enviait /ɑ̃.vjɛ/ |
enviions /ɑ̃.vi.jɔ̃/ |
enviiez /ɑ̃.vi.je/ |
enviaient /ɑ̃.vjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | enviai /ɑ̃.vje/ |
envias /ɑ̃.vja/ |
envia /ɑ̃.vja/ |
enviâmes /ɑ̃.vjam/ |
enviâtes /ɑ̃.vjat/ |
envièrent /ɑ̃.vjɛʁ/ | |
| future | envierai /ɑ̃.vi.ʁe/ |
envieras /ɑ̃.vi.ʁa/ |
enviera /ɑ̃.vi.ʁa/ |
envierons /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
envierez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁe/ |
envieront /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | envierais /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɛ/ |
envierais /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɛ/ |
envierait /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɛ/ |
envierions /ɑ̃.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
envieriez /ɑ̃.vi.ʁje/ |
envieraient /ɑ̃.vi.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 | envie /ɑ̃.vi/ |
envies /ɑ̃.vi/ |
envie /ɑ̃.vi/ |
enviions /ɑ̃.vi.jɔ̃/ |
enviiez /ɑ̃.vi.je/ |
envient /ɑ̃.vi/ |
| imperfect2 | enviasse /ɑ̃.vjas/ |
enviasses /ɑ̃.vjas/ |
enviât /ɑ̃.vja/ |
enviassions /ɑ̃.vja.sjɔ̃/ |
enviassiez /ɑ̃.vja.sje/ |
enviassent /ɑ̃.vjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | envie /ɑ̃.vi/ |
— | envions /ɑ̃.vjɔ̃/ |
enviez /ɑ̃.vje/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “envier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.