emboutir
French
Etymology
From Middle French emboutir, enbotir, equivalent to en- + bout + -ir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ/
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Verb
emboutir
- to emboss
- to crash into
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of emboutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | emboutir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | emboutissant /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | embouti /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutit /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutissons /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ | emboutissez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.se/ | emboutissent /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
imperfect | emboutissais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ | emboutissais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ | emboutissait /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ | emboutissions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ | emboutissiez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sje/ | emboutissaient /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutit /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutîmes /ɑ̃.bu.tim/ | emboutîtes /ɑ̃.bu.tit/ | emboutirent /ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ/ | |
future | emboutirai /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁe/ | emboutiras /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁa/ | emboutira /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁa/ | emboutirons /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | emboutirez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁe/ | emboutiront /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | emboutirais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ | emboutirais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ | emboutirait /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ | emboutirions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | emboutiriez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁje/ | emboutiraient /ɑ̃.bu.ti.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 | emboutisse /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | emboutisses /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | emboutisse /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | emboutissions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ | emboutissiez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sje/ | emboutissent /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
imperfect2 | emboutisse /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | emboutisses /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | emboutît /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | emboutissions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ | emboutissiez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sje/ | emboutissent /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | — | emboutissons /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ | emboutissez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.se/ | — | |
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
- emboutissage
- emboutisseur
Descendants
- → Italian: imbutire
Further reading
- “emboutir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.