jengendrais

Jengendrais is not a standalone standard word in French; it is typically the form you would obtain when the verb engendrer is conjugated in the first person singular and the Je pronoun is elided before a vowel, yielding the written form j'engendrais. In standard spelling, this would be written with the apostrophe as j'engendrais. The form corresponds to the imperfect of engendrer, used to describe a past or habitual action of engendering.

Grammatically, engendrer is a regular -er verb meaning to generate, produce, or beget. The imperfect indicative conveys ongoing or repeated past action (j'engendrais = I engendered / I used to engender). It is distinct from the conditional present, which would be j'engendrerais (I would engender). In French, sentences using j'engendrais typically appear in narrative past contexts or in hypothetical constructions introduced by si, such as “Si j'engendrais une solution…” meaning “If I were to engender a solution” or “If I engendered a solution.”

Usage notes and variants: the spelling without the apostrophe (jengendrais) may appear in older texts, in typesetting without proper apostrophes, or in computer- or search-based representations where diacritics and elisions are omitted. In everyday French, the contracted form with apostrophe (j'engendrais) is standard. Etymologically, engendrer derives from a root associated with generating or begetting, and j’engendrais shares that semantic field when used in past or hypothetical tenses.

See also: engendrer, French verb conjugation, imperfect indicative, conditional mood.