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empiéger
empiéger
See also: empieger
French
Verb
empiéger
- (rare) to trap
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent ‘e’ is inserted before ‘a’ and ‘o’ endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’).
Conjugation of empiéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | empiéger | avoir empiégé | |||||
| gerund | en empiégeant | en ayant empiégé | |||||
| present participle | empiégeant /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | empiégé /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
empièges /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
empiégeons /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɔ̃/ |
empiégez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/ |
empiègent /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | empiégeais /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/ |
empiégeais /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/ |
empiégeait /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/ |
empiégions /ɑ̃.pje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
empiégiez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒje/ |
empiégeaient /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | empiégeai /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/ |
empiégeas /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa/ |
empiégea /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa/ |
empiégeâmes /ɑ̃.pje.ʒam/ |
empiégeâtes /ɑ̃.pje.ʒat/ |
empiégèrent /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | empiégerai or empiègerai /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
empiégeras or empiègeras /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
empiégera or empiègera /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
empiégerons or empiègerons /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
empiégerez or empiègerez /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
empiégeront or empiègeront /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | empiégerais or empiègerais /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
empiégerais or empiègerais /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
empiégerait or empiègerait /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
empiégerions or empiègerions /ɑ̃.pjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empiégeriez or empiègeriez /ɑ̃.pjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
empiégeraient or empiègeraient /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.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 | empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
empièges /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
empiégions /ɑ̃.pje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
empiégiez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒje/ |
empiègent /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
empiégeasse /ɑ̃.pje.ʒas/ |
empiégeasses /ɑ̃.pje.ʒas/ |
empiégeât /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa/ |
empiégeassions /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
empiégeassiez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa.sje/ |
empiégeassent /ɑ̃.pje.ʒas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/ |
— | empiégeons /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɔ̃/ |
empiégez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- ↑ (fr)(de) impedicāre in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)