Quelle est la conjugaison de eat en anglais ? Quelles sont les définitions de ce verbe ? À quels synonymes, expressions et phrasal verbs est-il associé ?
Tableaux de conjugaison de eat en anglais
Conjugaison du verbe eat à l’indicatif
Le verbe eat au present simple
- I eat
- You eat
- He/she/it eats
- We eat
- You eat
- They eat
Le verbe eat au present continuous
- I am eating
- You are eating
- He/she/it is eating
- We are eating
- You are eating
- They are eating
Le verbe eat past simple
- I ate
- You ate
- He/she/it ate
- We ate
- You ate
- They ate
Le verbe eat au past continuous
- I was eating
- You were eating
- He/she/it was eating
- We were eating
- You were eating
- They were eating
Le verbe eat au present perfect
- I have eaten
- You have eaten
- He/she/it has eaten
- We have eaten
- You have eaten
- They have eaten
Le verbe eat au present perfect continuous
- I have been eating
- You have been eating
- He/she/it has been eating
- We have been eating
- You have been eating
- They have been eating
Le verbe eat au past perfect
- I had eaten
- You had eaten
- He/she/it had eaten
- We had eaten
- You had eaten
- They had eaten
Le verbe eat au past perfect continuous
- I had been eating
- You had been eating
- He/she/it had been eating
- We had been eating
- You had been eating
- They had been eating
Le verbe eat au future
- I will eat
- You will eat
- He/she/it will eat
- We will eat
- You will eat
- They will eat
Le verbe eat au future continuous
- I will be eating
- You will be eating
- He/she/it will be eating
- We will be eating
- You will be eating
- They will be eating
Le verbe eat au future perfect
- I will have eaten
- You will have eaten
- He/she/it will have eaten
- We will have eaten
- You will have eaten
- They will have eaten
Le verbe eat au future perfect continuous
- I will have been eating
- You will have been eating
- He/she/it will have been eating
- We will have been eating
- You will have been eating
- They will have been eating
Conjugaison du verbe eat au conditionnel
Le verbe eat au conditional present
- I would eat
- You would eat
- He/she/it would eat
- We would eat
- You would eat
- They would eat
Le verbe eat au conditional present continuous
- I would be eating
- You would be eating
- He/she/it would be eating
- We would be eating
- You would be eating
- They would be eating
Le verbe eat au conditional perfect
- I would have eaten
- You would have eaten
- He/she/it would have eaten
- We would have eaten
- You would have eaten
- They would have eaten
Le verbe eat au conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been eating
- You would have been eating
- He/she/it would have been eating
- We would have been eating
- You would have been eating
- They would have been eating
Les autres formes
L’infinitif de eat
- to eat
Participe présent de eat
- eating
Participe passé de eat
- eaten
L’impĂ©ratif de eat
- eat
- let’s eat
Ă€ l’instar de to drive, to come, to tell, to run et to know, to eat est un verbe irrĂ©gulier. Vous devez donc faire particulièrement attention aux terminaisons du passĂ©.
Définition de eat en anglais
Que veut dire le verbe eat en anglais ?
Le Cambridge Dictionary donne plusieurs définitions du verbe eat.
Penchons-nous sur les principales :
1. To put or take food into the mouth, chew it, and swallow it
Vegetarians don’t eat meat.
→ Les végétariens ne mangent pas de viande.
2. To damage or destroy something
The substance has eaten into the concrete.
→ La substance a érodé le ciment.
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Les phrasal verbs avec eat en anglais
Rappel : les phrasal verbs (ou “verbes Ă particule”) sont des verbes qui, lorsqu’ils sont suivis d’un autre mot (la particule), voient leur sens initial complĂ©tĂ© ou modifiĂ©.
Il existe trois phrasal verbs formés sur le verbe eat :
- eat away at somebody/something → ronger, dévorer (au sens figuré, comme un souci par exemple)
- eat in → manger à la maison
- eat into something → entamer (au sens figuré, comme un budget par exemple)
- eat out → sortir diner, aller au restaurant
- eat something away → éroder
- eat something up → gober, avaler (au sens figuré, comme un mensonge par exemple)
- eat up → finir son assiette, vider son assiette (familier)
Les synonymes de eat en anglais
En fonction du contexte, vous pouvez remplacer le verbe to eat par l’un des verbes suivants :
- banquet → faire un festin
- bite → croquer dans (un aliment)
- breakfast → prendre le petit-déjeuner
- chew → mâcher, mastiquer
- devour → dévorer, engloutir
- dine → dîner
- gorge → s’empiffrer, se goinfrer (familier)
- gormandize → manger goulûment
- graze → grignoter (familier)
- ingest → ingérer
- lunch → déjeuner
- munch → manger bruyamment
- nibble → grignoter
- nosh → bouffer, grailler (familier)
- pick → picorer
- scarf → engloutir
- scoff → s’enfiler (un aliment, familier)
- snack → grignoter
- sup → souper (terme très vieilli)
- swallow → avaler
- wolf → dévorer, engloutir
Expressions avec eat en anglais
- all-you-can-eat (adjectif) → à volonté
- dog eat dog → chacun pour soi
- eat crow (anglais américain) → admettre son erreur (familier)
- eat dirt → mordre la poussière (familier)
- eat high off the hog → mener la belle vie
- eat humble pie (anglais britannique) → faire amende honorable (familier)
- eat like a bird → avoir un appétit de moineau
- eat like a horse → manger comme quatre
- eat out of somebody’s hand → manger dans la main de quelqu’un (au sens figuré)
- eat your fill → manger à satiété
- eat your words → se rétracter
- eat, drink and be merry → profiter de la vie
- have your cake and eat it → avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre
- safe to eat (adjectif) → sans risque pour la santé (pour de la nourriture)


