empoigner
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/
Verb
empoigner
- to grab; grasp (to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something))
- 1961, Charles Aznavour (lyrics and music), “Je m’voyais déjà”, in Je m'voyais déjà:
- A dix-huit ans j’ai quitté ma province / Bien décidé à empoigner la vie / Le cœur léger et le bagage mince / J’étais certain de conquérir Paris
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Conjugation
Conjugation of empoigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | empoignant /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | empoigné /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | empoigner | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | empoignant /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignes /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignons /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
empoignez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ |
empoignent /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
| imperfect | empoignais /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ |
empoignais /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ |
empoignait /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ |
empoignions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
empoigniez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲje/ |
empoignaient /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | empoignai /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ |
empoignas /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa/ |
empoigna /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa/ |
empoignâmes /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲam/ |
empoignâtes /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲat/ |
empoignèrent /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | empoignerai /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁe/ |
empoigneras /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁa/ |
empoignera /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁa/ |
empoignerons /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
empoignerez /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁe/ |
empoigneront /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | empoignerais /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁɛ/ |
empoignerais /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁɛ/ |
empoignerait /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁɛ/ |
empoignerions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empoigneriez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁje/ |
empoigneraient /ɑ̃.pwaɲ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignes /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
empoigniez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲje/ |
empoignent /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | empoignasse /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲas/ |
empoignasses /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲas/ |
empoignât /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa/ |
empoignassions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
empoignassiez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa.sje/ |
empoignassent /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
— | empoignons /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
empoignez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “empoigner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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