énouer
French, verb/e.nwe/
énouer is a French verb meaning “to remove the knots from, to unknot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever les nœuds et autres défauts qui dépassent d’un tissu, notamment les brins de paille mêlés à la laine”.
What does énouer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove the knots from, to unknot
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever les nœuds et autres défauts qui dépassent d’un tissu, notamment les brins de paille mêlés à la laine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of énouer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- énouant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- énoué participle past
- énoue first-person indicative present
- énoues indicative present second-person
- énouons first-person indicative plural
- énouez indicative plural present
- énouent indicative plural present
- énouais first-person imperfect indicative
- énouait imperfect indicative singular
- énouions first-person imperfect indicative
- énouiez imperfect indicative plural
- énouaient imperfect indicative plural
- énouai first-person historic indicative
- énouas historic indicative past
- énoua historic indicative past
- énouâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce énouer?
- /e.nwe/
- \e.nwe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.