embobiner
French
Etymology
en- + bobine (“reel, spool”) + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/
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Verb
embobiner
- (transitive) to wind up, reel up
- (transitive) to wrap up
- une mouche embobinée dans une toile d'araignée
- a fly wrapped up in a spider's web
- (colloquial, transitive) reel in
Conjugation
Conjugation of embobiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | embobiner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | embobinant /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | embobiné /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | embobines /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | embobinons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɔ̃/ | embobinez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ | embobinent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
imperfect | embobinais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ | embobinais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ | embobinait /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ | embobinions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.njɔ̃/ | embobiniez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nje/ | embobinaient /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | embobinai /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ | embobinas /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/ | embobina /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/ | embobinâmes /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nam/ | embobinâtes /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nat/ | embobinèrent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛʁ/ | |
future | embobinerai /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁe/ | embobineras /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁa/ | embobinera /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁa/ | embobinerons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɔ̃/ | embobinerez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁe/ | embobineront /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | embobinerais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/ | embobinerais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/ | embobinerait /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/ | embobinerions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | embobineriez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nə.ʁje/ | embobineraient /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.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 | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | embobines /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | embobinions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.njɔ̃/ | embobiniez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nje/ | embobinent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
imperfect2 | embobinasse /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/ | embobinasses /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/ | embobinât /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/ | embobinassions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na.sjɔ̃/ | embobinassiez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na.sje/ | embobinassent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ | — | embobinons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɔ̃/ | embobinez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
- bobinoir
- débobiner
- embobeliner
- rebobiner
- rembobiner
Further reading
- “embobiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- rembobine, rembobiné