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empêcher
empêcher
French
Verb
empêcher
Conjugation
Conjugation of empêcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | empêcher | avoir empêché | |||||
| gerund | en empêchant | en ayant empêché | |||||
| present participle | empêchant /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | empêché /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empêche /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
empêches /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
empêche /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
empêchons /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɔ̃/ |
empêchez /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃe/ |
empêchent /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | empêchais /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɛ/ |
empêchais /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɛ/ |
empêchait /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɛ/ |
empêchions /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
empêchiez /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃje/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃje/ |
empêchaient /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | empêchai /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃe/ |
empêchas /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃa/ |
empêcha /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃa/ |
empêchâmes /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃam/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃam/ |
empêchâtes /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃat/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃat/ |
empêchèrent /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | empêcherai /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁe/ |
empêcheras /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁa/ |
empêchera /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁa/ |
empêcherons /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
empêcherez /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁe/ |
empêcheront /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | empêcherais /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
empêcherais /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
empêcherait /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
empêcherions /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empêcheriez /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
empêcheraient /ɑ̃.pɛʃ.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 | empêche /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
empêches /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
empêche /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
empêchions /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
empêchiez /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃje/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃje/ |
empêchent /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
empêchasse /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃas/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃas/ |
empêchasses /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃas/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃas/ |
empêchât /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃa/ |
empêchassions /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
empêchassiez /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa.sje/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃa.sje/ |
empêchassent /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃas/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | empêche /ɑ̃.pɛʃ/ |
— | empêchons /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃɔ̃/ |
empêchez /ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ɑ̃.pe.ʃe/ |
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Derived terms
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:empêcher.