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emballer
emballer
French
Verb
emballer
- (transitive) to pack up; to wrap up
- (colloquial) to thrill, to turn on
- Cela ne m'emballe pas.
- I'm not keen on it.
- Cela ne m'emballe pas.
- (reflexive) to race
- (reflexive, for a horse) to bolt
- (reflexive, colloquial) to get carried away
- February 6 2009, Le Point, Nicolas Sarkozy : "Je maintiens ma confiance" en Bernard Kouchner
- Un monsieur fait un livre, il ne m'appartient pas de juger de la qualité de ce livre. Dans ce livre, ce monsieur dit que Bernard Kouchner n'a rien fait d'illégal, et le petit système médiatique s'emballe et accuse monsieur Kouchner.
- February 6 2009, Le Point, Nicolas Sarkozy : "Je maintiens ma confiance" en Bernard Kouchner
- (reflexive, colloquial) to get ahead of oneself
- (transitive, colloquial) to make out with someone
Conjugation
Conjugation of emballer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | emballer | avoir emballé | |||||
| gerund | en emballant | en ayant emballé | |||||
| present participle | emballant /ɑ̃.ba.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | emballé /ɑ̃.ba.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballes /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballons /ɑ̃.ba.lɔ̃/ |
emballez /ɑ̃.ba.le/ |
emballent /ɑ̃.bal/ |
| imperfect | emballais /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
emballais /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
emballait /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
emballions /ɑ̃.ba.ljɔ̃/ |
emballiez /ɑ̃.ba.lje/ |
emballaient /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | emballai /ɑ̃.ba.le/ |
emballas /ɑ̃.ba.la/ |
emballa /ɑ̃.ba.la/ |
emballâmes /ɑ̃.ba.lam/ |
emballâtes /ɑ̃.ba.lat/ |
emballèrent /ɑ̃.ba.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | emballerai /ɑ̃.bal.ʁe/ |
emballeras /ɑ̃.bal.ʁa/ |
emballera /ɑ̃.bal.ʁa/ |
emballerons /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɔ̃/ |
emballerez /ɑ̃.bal.ʁe/ |
emballeront /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | emballerais /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɛ/ |
emballerais /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɛ/ |
emballerait /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɛ/ |
emballerions /ɑ̃.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
emballeriez /ɑ̃.ba.lə.ʁje/ |
emballeraient /ɑ̃.bal.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 | emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballes /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballions /ɑ̃.ba.ljɔ̃/ |
emballiez /ɑ̃.ba.lje/ |
emballent /ɑ̃.bal/ |
| imperfect1 |
emballasse /ɑ̃.ba.las/ |
emballasses /ɑ̃.ba.las/ |
emballât /ɑ̃.ba.la/ |
emballassions /ɑ̃.ba.la.sjɔ̃/ |
emballassiez /ɑ̃.ba.la.sje/ |
emballassent /ɑ̃.ba.las/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
— | emballons /ɑ̃.ba.lɔ̃/ |
emballez /ɑ̃.ba.le/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: embalar (borrowed)