endimancher

French

FWOTD – 23 December 2019

Etymology

From en- +‎ dimanche (“Sunday”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

endimancher

1. (pronominal) to dress up in one's Sunday best
   • 1847, Honoré de Balzac, translated by William Walton, Cousin Pons:

     Une heure après, la Cibot s’endimancha, partit en milord, au grand étonnement de Rémonencq et se promit de représenter dignement la femme de confiance des deux Casse-noisettes dans tous les pensionnats, chez toutes les personnes où se trouvaient les écolières des deux musiciens.

     An hour later the Cibot, in her Sunday best, departed in great state, to the amazement of Rémonencq, promising herself to represent, in a suitable manner, the confidential housekeeper of the two Nut-crackers in all the boarding-schools and to all the private pupils of the two musicians.

   • 1924, Emmanuel Bove, translated by Janet Louth, Mes Amis [My Friends]‎^[1]:

     J’ai deux complets : celui que je mets tous les jours et un autre qui a l’avantage d’être noir. J’hésitai à revêtir ce dernier ; je ne savais pas si M. Lacaze aimait mieux que j’eusse l’air pauvre ou bien que, pour lui, je me fusse endimanché.

     I have two suits: the one I wear every day, and another which has the advantage of being black. I hesitated to put on the latter; I did not know whether Monsieur Lacaze would prefer me to look poor or whether he would be glad I had dressed my best for him.

2. (transitive) to dress someone to look on their Sunday best
   • 1857, Alfred de Musset, “À mon Frère, revenant d’Italie [To My Brother, Returning From Italy]”, in Marie Agathe Clarke, transl., Poésies nouvelles, lines 73–78:

     Pauvre Ischia ! bien des gens n’ont vu / Tes jeunes filles que pied nu / Dans la poussière. / On les endimanche à prix d’or ; / Mais ton pur soleil brille encor / Sur leur misère.

     Poor Ischia! In thy every street / Thy maidens in their naked feet / Tread the soft dust. / Whether in rags or colored cloth, / To earn a coin they're nothing loth— / Find crust they must.

     (literally, “Poor Ischia! many people have seen your maidens only barefoot in the dust. One dresses them richly; but your pure sun still shines over their misery.”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of endimancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	endimancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	endimanchant /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		endimanché /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	endimanche /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	endimanches /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	endimanche /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	endimanchons /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	endimanchez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/	endimanchent /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	endimanchais /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	endimanchais /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	endimanchait /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	endimanchions /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	endimanchiez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃje/	endimanchaient /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	endimanchai /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/	endimanchas /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa/	endimancha /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa/	endimanchâmes /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃam/	endimanchâtes /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃat/	endimanchèrent /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	endimancherai /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	endimancheras /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	endimanchera /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	endimancherons /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	endimancherez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	endimancheront /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	endimancherais /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	endimancherais /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	endimancherait /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	endimancherions /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	endimancheriez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	endimancheraient /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.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	endimanche /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	endimanches /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	endimanche /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	endimanchions /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	endimanchiez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃje/	endimanchent /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	endimanchasse /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃas/	endimanchasses /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃas/	endimanchât /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa/	endimanchassions /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	endimanchassiez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	endimanchassent /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	endimanche /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	—	endimanchons /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	endimanchez /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/	—
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).

Conjugation of s'endimancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'endimancher
	compound	être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s’endimanchant /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	étant + past participle
past participle		endimanché /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’endimanche /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	t’endimanches /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	s’endimanche /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	nous endimanchons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	vous endimanchez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/	s’endimanchent /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	m’endimanchais /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	t’endimanchais /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	s’endimanchait /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	nous endimanchions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	vous endimanchiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃje/	s’endimanchaient /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	m’endimanchai /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe/	t’endimanchas /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa/	s’endimancha /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa/	nous endimanchâmes /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃam/	vous endimanchâtes /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃat/	s’endimanchèrent /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	m’endimancherai /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	t’endimancheras /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	s’endimanchera /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	nous endimancherons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	vous endimancherez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	s’endimancheront /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	m’endimancherais /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	t’endimancherais /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	s’endimancherait /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	nous endimancherions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	vous endimancheriez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	s’endimancheraient /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of être + past participle
	future perfect	future of être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of 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’endimanche /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	t’endimanches /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	s’endimanche /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/	nous endimanchions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	vous endimanchiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃje/	s’endimanchent /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	m’endimanchasse /mɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃas/	t’endimanchasses /tɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃas/	s’endimanchât /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa/	nous endimanchassions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	vous endimanchassiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	s’endimanchassent /sɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	endimanche-toi /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃ʃ.twa/	—	endimanchons-nous /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃.nu/	endimanchez-vous /ɑ̃.di.mɑ̃.ʃe.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of être + past participle	—	simple imperative of être + past participle	simple imperative of être + 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).

Derived terms

• désendimancher
• endimanchable
• endimanchement

Descendants

• → English: endimanched
• → German: endimanchiert

Further reading

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