Daily Verb Lesson: French for jam is enrayer
The French for jam is the irregular ER verb enrayer.To remember this, imagine the ENRAGED RAY jams the machine's function!
Enrayer can also mean: to curb, to check, to lock, to abate, to call a halt to.
Related words include:
- s'enrayer (vr) : to get jammed, to jam up.
- rayer (v) : to cross something out/off, to delete; to scratch.
With some ER verbs ending in -ayer it is optional to replace the y with an i before a silent syllable. Examples of this family of verb conjugations: bégayer, délayer, effrayer, embrayer, enrayer, pagayer, surpayer, balayer.
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Imagine the ENRAGED RAY jams
the machine's function!
| TENSE | ||||||
| Present Présent jam |
enraie enraye |
enraies enrayes |
enraie enraye |
enrayons | enrayez | enraient enrayent |
| Past Imperfect Imparfait jammed |
enrayais | enrayais | enrayait | enrayions | enrayiez | enrayaient |
| Simple Past Passé Simple jammed |
enrayai | enrayas | enraya | enrayâmes | enrayâtes | enrayèrent |
| Future Futur will jam |
enraierai enrayerai |
enraieras enrayeras |
enraiera enrayera |
enraierons enrayerons |
enraierez enrayerez |
enraieront enrayeront |
| Conditional Conditionnel would jam |
enraierais enrayerais |
enraierais enrayerais |
enraierait enrayerait |
enraierions enrayerions |
enraieriez enrayeriez |
enraieraient enrayeraient |
| Present Subjunctive Subjonctif may jam |
enraie enraye |
enraies enrayes |
enraie enraye |
enrayions | enrayiez | enraient enrayent |
| Present Perfect Passé Composé have jammed |
ai enrayé | as enrayé | a enrayé | avons enrayé | avez enrayé | ont enrayé |
| Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had jammed |
avais enrayé | avais enrayé | avait enrayé | avions enrayé | aviez enrayé | avaient enrayé |
| Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have jammed |
aurai enrayé | auras enrayé | aura enrayé | aurons enrayé | aurez enrayé | auront enrayé |
| Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would've jammed |
aurais enrayé | aurais enrayé | aurait enrayé | aurions enrayé | auriez enrayé | auraient enrayé |
| Imperative Imperatif jam! |
enraie! enraye ! |
enrayons ! | enrayez ! | |||
✔ enrayer is an irregular ER verb.
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