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emplir
emplir
French
Verb
emplir
- (transitive) to fill
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, s'emplir) to fill
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of emplir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | emplir | avoir empli | |||||
| gerund | en emplissant | en ayant empli | |||||
| present participle | emplissant /ɑ̃.pli.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | empli /ɑ̃.pli/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | emplis /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplis /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplit /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplissons /ɑ̃.pli.sɔ̃/ |
emplissez /ɑ̃.pli.se/ |
emplissent /ɑ̃.plis/ |
| imperfect | emplissais /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/ |
emplissais /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/ |
emplissait /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/ |
emplissions /ɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/ |
emplissiez /ɑ̃.pli.sje/ |
emplissaient /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | emplis /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplis /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplit /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplîmes /ɑ̃.plim/ |
emplîtes /ɑ̃.plit/ |
emplirent /ɑ̃.pliʁ/ |
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| future | emplirai /ɑ̃.pli.ʁe/ |
empliras /ɑ̃.pli.ʁa/ |
emplira /ɑ̃.pli.ʁa/ |
emplirons /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɔ̃/ |
emplirez /ɑ̃.pli.ʁe/ |
empliront /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | emplirais /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/ |
emplirais /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/ |
emplirait /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/ |
emplirions /ɑ̃.pli.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empliriez /ɑ̃.pli.ʁje/ |
empliraient /ɑ̃.pli.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 | emplisse /ɑ̃.plis/ |
emplisses /ɑ̃.plis/ |
emplisse /ɑ̃.plis/ |
emplissions /ɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/ |
emplissiez /ɑ̃.pli.sje/ |
emplissent /ɑ̃.plis/ |
| imperfect1 |
emplisse /ɑ̃.plis/ |
emplisses /ɑ̃.plis/ |
emplît /ɑ̃.pli/ |
emplissions /ɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/ |
emplissiez /ɑ̃.pli.sje/ |
emplissent /ɑ̃.plis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | emplis /ɑ̃.pli/ |
— | emplissons /ɑ̃.pli.sɔ̃/ |
emplissez /ɑ̃.pli.se/ |
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