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émailler
émailler
French
Verb
émailler
- to enamel
- (figuratively) to mar, spoil, blemish
- Une série d'incidents a émaillé l'événement. — A series of incidents marred the event.
Conjugation
Conjugation of émailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | émailler | avoir émaillé | |||||
| gerund | en émaillant | en ayant émaillé | |||||
| present participle | émaillant /e.ma.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | émaillé /e.ma.je/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | émaille /e.maj/ |
émailles /e.maj/ |
émaille /e.maj/ |
émaillons /e.ma.jɔ̃/ |
émaillez /e.ma.je/ |
émaillent /e.maj/ |
| imperfect | émaillais /e.ma.jɛ/ |
émaillais /e.ma.jɛ/ |
émaillait /e.ma.jɛ/ |
émaillions /e.maj.jɔ̃/ |
émailliez /e.maj.je/ |
émaillaient /e.ma.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | émaillai /e.ma.je/ |
émaillas /e.ma.ja/ |
émailla /e.ma.ja/ |
émaillâmes /e.ma.jam/ |
émaillâtes /e.ma.jat/ |
émaillèrent /e.ma.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | émaillerai /e.maj.ʁe/ |
émailleras /e.maj.ʁa/ |
émaillera /e.maj.ʁa/ |
émaillerons /e.maj.ʁɔ̃/ |
émaillerez /e.maj.ʁe/ |
émailleront /e.maj.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | émaillerais /e.maj.ʁɛ/ |
émaillerais /e.maj.ʁɛ/ |
émaillerait /e.maj.ʁɛ/ |
émaillerions /e.ma.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
émailleriez /e.ma.jə.ʁje/ |
émailleraient /e.maj.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | émaille /e.maj/ |
émailles /e.maj/ |
émaille /e.maj/ |
émaillions /e.maj.jɔ̃/ |
émailliez /e.maj.je/ |
émaillent /e.maj/ |
| imperfect1 |
émaillasse /e.ma.jas/ |
émaillasses /e.ma.jas/ |
émaillât /e.ma.ja/ |
émaillassions /e.ma.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
émaillassiez /e.ma.ja.sje/ |
émaillassent /e.ma.jas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | émaille /e.maj/ |
— | émaillons /e.ma.jɔ̃/ |
émaillez /e.ma.je/ |
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