The French verb entrer literally means "to enter" and is also used in many idiomatic expressions. Learn how to get in touch with someone, come into effect, go to war, and more with this list of expressions with entrer.

Possible meanings of entrer

• to enter
• to come in
• to fit into
• to go in
• to import, smuggle in

Expressions with entrer

entrer à pied
to walk in

entrer à l'université
to go to college

entrer chez quelqu'un en passant
to drop in on someone

entrer dans
- to join, become a member of
- to crash into
- to fall under, come into (a category)
- to go into, make up (a mixture)

entrer dans les affaires
to go into business

entrer dans le brouillard
to hit fog

entrer dans des considérations
to raise some considerations, points

entrer dans la danse
to get involved, join in

entrer dans les détails
to go into details

entrer dans une discussion
to take part in a discussion

entrer dans l'histoire
to go down in history

entrer dans la légende
to go down in legend

entrer dans un livre
to get into a book

entrer dans la quarantaine, cinquantaine
to turn forty, fifty

entrer dans l'usage
to come into common/current use

entrer dans le vif du sujet
to get to the heart of the matter

entrer dans une colère noire
to fly into a terrible rage

entrer discrètement
to slip in

entrer en boitant
to limp in

entrer en contact
to come into contact, get in touch

entrer en courant
to run in

entrer en fonction
to take up one's post, come into office

entrer en guerre
to go to war

entrer en jeu
to come into play

entrer en ligne de compte
to be taken into consideration

entrer en relation(s) avec quelqu'un
to get in touch with someone

entrer en réligion
to become a monk or nun

entrer en scène
to come on stage, to arrive on the scene

entrer en vigueur
to come into effect

entrer par
to come in by/through

entrer sans frapper
to walk right in (without knocking)

entrer sans payer
to get in without paying

faire entrer
- to show (a guest) in
- to bring, call in
- to fit in
- to put in
- to smuggle in

faire entrer en ligne de compte
to take into consideration

faire entrer en vigueur
to implement laisser entrer
to let, allow in

À force d'explications ça finira par entrer.

Explain it for long enough and it will sink in

Ça entre ? (informal)
You get it? Are you getting the hang of it?

Ça n'entre pas dans mes fonctions.
That's not my job.

C'est entré comme dans du beurre.
It's like a knife through butter.

Entrez !
Come in!

Entre donc !
Come on in!

Entrons voir.
Let's go in and see.

entrez vous   "come in"
(English speakers often say this, but it's wrong - the correct way to say "come in" in French is simply entrez)

Je ne fais qu'entrer et sortir.
I can't stop.

en entrant
as you go in

Le train entre en gare.
The train is coming in(to the station)

Qu'il entre !
Show him in, Tell him to come in.

une entrée
entrance, entry; first course (UK), main course (US)

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