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entarter

to throw a cream pie at someone's face, to pie

Usage

To pie someone — literally to throw a cream pie in someone's face, a specifically French form of satirical protest against public figures. Rare outside of that context, but genuinely part of French cultural and media vocabulary.

Examples
  • Le militant a entarté le ministre en pleine conférence de presse. — The activist pied the minister in the middle of a press conference.
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy a été entarté à plusieurs reprises. — Bernard-Henri Lévy was pied on several occasions.
  • Se faire entarter en public est devenu une forme de dérision politique. — Getting pied in public has become a form of political mockery.
Common mistake

Don't confuse it with the unrelated-sounding entartrer (for limescale/kettle scale) — entarter is specifically about throwing a pie at someone as a prank or protest, a completely different word despite the similar spelling.

Often confused with entartrer.

In real life
  • politics Noël Godin, « l'entarteur » — Belgian anarchist provocateur (1945–2026), also known as Georges Le Gloupier, famous from the 1980s onward for pieing public figures he considered pompous — including Bernard-Henri Lévy, Bill Gates, and Nicolas Sarkozy — as a satirical protest.

Simple tenses

Present

jeentarte
tuentartes
il/elleentarte
nousentartons
vousentartez
ils/ellesentartent

Imperfect

jeentartais
tuentartais
il/elleentartait
nousentartions
vousentartiez
ils/ellesentartaient

Past historic (passé simple)

jeentartai
tuentartas
il/elleentarta
nousentartâmes
vousentartâtes
ils/ellesentartèrent

Future

jeentarterai
tuentarteras
il/elleentartera
nousentarterons
vousentarterez
ils/ellesentarteront

Conditional

jeentarterais
tuentarterais
il/elleentarterait
nousentarterions
vousentarteriez
ils/ellesentarteraient

Subjunctive

jeentarte
tuentartes
il/elleentarte
nousentartions
vousentartiez
ils/ellesentartent

Subjunctive (imperfect)

jeentartasse
tuentartasses
il/elleentartât
nousentartassions
vousentartassiez
ils/ellesentartassent

Imperative

tuentarte
nousentartons
vousentartez

Compound tenses

Passé composé

jeai entarté
tuas entarté
il/ellea entarté
nousavons entarté
vousavez entarté
ils/ellesont entarté

Plus-que-parfait

jeavais entarté
tuavais entarté
il/elleavait entarté
nousavions entarté
vousaviez entarté
ils/ellesavaient entarté

Passé antérieur

jeeus entarté
tueus entarté
il/elleeut entarté
nouseûmes entarté
vouseûtes entarté
ils/elleseurent entarté

Futur antérieur

jeaurai entarté
tuauras entarté
il/elleaura entarté
nousaurons entarté
vousaurez entarté
ils/ellesauront entarté

Conditionnel passé

jeaurais entarté
tuaurais entarté
il/elleaurait entarté
nousaurions entarté
vousauriez entarté
ils/ellesauraient entarté

Subjonctif passé

jeaie entarté
tuaies entarté
il/elleait entarté
nousayons entarté
vousayez entarté
ils/ellesaient entarté

Subjonctif plus-que-parfait

jeeusse entarté
tueusses entarté
il/elleeût entarté
nouseussions entarté
vouseussiez entarté
ils/elleseussent entarté

Impératif passé

tuaie entarté
nousayons entarté
vousayez entarté

Other

Present participle

entartant

Past participle

entarté

Infinitive

entarter

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Frequently asked questions

What does "entarter" mean?

"entarter" means "to throw a cream pie at someone's face, to pie".

How do you conjugate "entarter" in the present tense?

The present of "entarter" is: je entarte, tu entartes, il/elle entarte, nous entartons, vous entartez, ils/elles entartent.

What is the Passé composé of "entarter"?

The passé composé of "entarter" is: je ai entarté, tu as entarté, il/elle a entarté, nous avons entarté, vous avez entarté, ils/elles ont entarté.

What is the Imperative of "entarter"?

The imperative of "entarter" is: tu entarte, nous entartons, vous entartez.