endommageons

Endommageons is the present tense, first-person plural form of the French verb endommager, meaning to damage or harm. As a regular -er verb, its present indicative forms are: je endommage, tu endommages, il/elle endommage, nous endommageons, vous endommagez, ils endommagent. The form endommageons is therefore used for “we damage” in statements, and also appears in the inclusive imperative sense as a call to action, though this imperative usage is relatively rare in everyday French.

Etymology and meaning: endommager is built from the noun dommage (damage) with the prefix en-, conveying the idea of causing or producing damage. The noun dommage derives from Latin damnum meaning harm or loss. The verb endommager entered French to describe the act of causing damage to objects, structures, or, more metaphorically, to systems, plans, or reputations.

Usage and scope: Endommager is commonly used to describe physical harm to tangible things, such as equipment, buildings, or vehicles, as well as to describe impairing non-physical entities like plans or performances. The phrase endommageons can appear in narrative or descriptive contexts, e.g., “Nous endommageons le matériel si nous ne faisons pas attention,” though more typical constructions in French would use other verbs for hypothetical or ongoing harm. The past participle endommagé is used to describe damage after the fact (e.g., “le véhicule est endommagé”), and related forms include endommagement (damage, impairment) and endommagé (damaged).

See also: dommage, endommagé, endommagement, endommager.

Note: While the form endommageons is a normal grammatical form, care should be taken with the inclusive imperative usage, as it can imply wrongdoing if used outside legitimate or fictional contexts.