emmener
French
Etymology
Attested in Old French as enmener, equivalent to en- + mener.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃m.ne/
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Verb
emmener
- (transitive) to take off, take away or out
- (transitive) to take (someone) along somewhere, to take (something) with (someone)
- 1997, “J’t’emmène au vent”, performed by Louise Attaque:
- Allez viens, j't’emmène au vent / Je t’emmène au-dessus des gens
- Come on, I'll take you with me to the wind / I'll take you with me above the people
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il emmène rather than *il emmene. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of emmener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | emmener | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | emmenant /ɑ̃m.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | emmené /ɑ̃m.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | emmènes /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | emmenons /ɑ̃m.nɔ̃/ | emmenez /ɑ̃m.ne/ | emmènent /ɑ̃.mɛn/ |
| imperfect | emmenais /ɑ̃m.nɛ/ | emmenais /ɑ̃m.nɛ/ | emmenait /ɑ̃m.nɛ/ | emmenions /ɑ̃.mə.njɔ̃/ | emmeniez /ɑ̃.mə.nje/ | emmenaient /ɑ̃m.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | emmenai /ɑ̃m.ne/ | emmenas /ɑ̃m.na/ | emmena /ɑ̃m.na/ | emmenâmes /ɑ̃m.nam/ | emmenâtes /ɑ̃m.nat/ | emmenèrent /ɑ̃m.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | emmènerai /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁe/ | emmèneras /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁa/ | emmènera /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁa/ | emmènerons /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | emmènerez /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁe/ | emmèneront /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | emmènerais /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɛ/ | emmènerais /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɛ/ | emmènerait /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɛ/ | emmènerions /ɑ̃.mɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.me.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | emmèneriez /ɑ̃.mɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.me.nə.ʁje/ | emmèneraient /ɑ̃.mɛn.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 | emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | emmènes /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | emmenions /ɑ̃.mə.njɔ̃/ | emmeniez /ɑ̃.mə.nje/ | emmènent /ɑ̃.mɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | emmenasse /ɑ̃m.nas/ | emmenasses /ɑ̃m.nas/ | emmenât /ɑ̃m.na/ | emmenassions /ɑ̃m.na.sjɔ̃/ | emmenassiez /ɑ̃m.na.sje/ | emmenassent /ɑ̃m.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/ | — | emmenons /ɑ̃m.nɔ̃/ | emmenez /ɑ̃m.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
- amener
- apporter
- emporter
Further reading
- “emmener”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.