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empester
empester
French
Verb
empester
- (transitive) to infect with the pest or with a contagious disease
- (transitive) to cause to stink, to cause to reek (of)
- (transitive) to reek of
Conjugation
Conjugation of empester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | empester | avoir empesté | |||||
| gerund | en empestant | en ayant empesté | |||||
| present participle | empestant /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | empesté /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestes /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
empestez /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
empestent /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
| imperfect | empestais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
empestais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
empestait /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
empestions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
empestiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tje/ |
empestaient /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | empestai /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
empestas /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/ |
empesta /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/ |
empestâmes /ɑ̃.pɛs.tam/ |
empestâtes /ɑ̃.pɛs.tat/ |
empestèrent /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | empesterai /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
empesteras /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
empestera /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
empesterons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
empesterez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
empesteront /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | empesterais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
empesterais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
empesterait /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
empesterions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empesteriez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
empesteraient /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.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 | empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestes /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
empestiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tje/ |
empestent /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
| imperfect1 |
empestasse /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/ |
empestasses /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/ |
empestât /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/ |
empestassions /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
empestassiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta.sje/ |
empestassent /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
— | empestons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
empestez /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
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