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imprégner
imprégner
See also: impregner
French
Verb
imprégner
- (transitive) to impregnate
- (transitive) to imbue
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written imprégner-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written imprègner-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of imprégner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | imprégner | avoir imprégné | |||||
| gerund | en imprégnant | en ayant imprégné | |||||
| present participle | imprégnant /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | imprégné /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | imprègne /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
imprègnes /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
imprègne /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
imprégnons /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɔ̃/ |
imprégnez /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe/ |
imprègnent /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | imprégnais /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/ |
imprégnais /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/ |
imprégnait /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/ |
imprégnions /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲjɔ̃/ |
imprégniez /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲje/ |
imprégnaient /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | imprégnai /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe/ |
imprégnas /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲa/ |
imprégna /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲa/ |
imprégnâmes /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲam/ |
imprégnâtes /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲat/ |
imprégnèrent /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɛʁ/ |
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| future | imprègnerai or imprégnerai /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁe/ |
imprègneras or imprégneras /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁa/ |
imprègnera or imprégnera /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁa/ |
imprègnerons or imprégnerons /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
imprègnerez or imprégnerez /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁe/ |
imprègneront or imprégneront /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | imprègnerais or imprégnerais /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
imprègnerais or imprégnerais /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
imprègnerait or imprégnerait /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
imprègnerions or imprégnerions /ɛ̃.pʁɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
imprègneriez or imprégneriez /ɛ̃.pʁɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ |
imprègneraient or imprégneraient /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ.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 | imprègne /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
imprègnes /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
imprègne /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
imprégnions /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲjɔ̃/ |
imprégniez /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲje/ |
imprègnent /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect1 |
imprégnasse /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲas/ |
imprégnasses /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲas/ |
imprégnât /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲa/ |
imprégnassions /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
imprégnassiez /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲa.sje/ |
imprégnassent /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | imprègne /ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ/ |
— | imprégnons /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲɔ̃/ |
imprégnez /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe/ |
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