empaler
English
Noun
empaler (plural empalers)
- Obsolete form of impaler.
Anagrams
- empearl, premeal
French
Etymology
From Old French, equivalent to em- + pal + -er. See also Medieval Latin impalāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pa.le/
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Verb
empaler
- to impale
Conjugation
Conjugation of empaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | empaler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | empalant /ɑ̃.pa.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | empalé /ɑ̃.pa.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | empale /ɑ̃.pal/ | empales /ɑ̃.pal/ | empale /ɑ̃.pal/ | empalons /ɑ̃.pa.lɔ̃/ | empalez /ɑ̃.pa.le/ | empalent /ɑ̃.pal/ |
| imperfect | empalais /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/ | empalais /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/ | empalait /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/ | empalions /ɑ̃.pa.ljɔ̃/ | empaliez /ɑ̃.pa.lje/ | empalaient /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | empalai /ɑ̃.pa.le/ | empalas /ɑ̃.pa.la/ | empala /ɑ̃.pa.la/ | empalâmes /ɑ̃.pa.lam/ | empalâtes /ɑ̃.pa.lat/ | empalèrent /ɑ̃.pa.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | empalerai /ɑ̃.pal.ʁe/ | empaleras /ɑ̃.pal.ʁa/ | empalera /ɑ̃.pal.ʁa/ | empalerons /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɔ̃/ | empalerez /ɑ̃.pal.ʁe/ | empaleront /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | empalerais /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɛ/ | empalerais /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɛ/ | empalerait /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɛ/ | empalerions /ɑ̃.pa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | empaleriez /ɑ̃.pa.lə.ʁje/ | empaleraient /ɑ̃.pal.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 | empale /ɑ̃.pal/ | empales /ɑ̃.pal/ | empale /ɑ̃.pal/ | empalions /ɑ̃.pa.ljɔ̃/ | empaliez /ɑ̃.pa.lje/ | empalent /ɑ̃.pal/ |
| imperfect2 | empalasse /ɑ̃.pa.las/ | empalasses /ɑ̃.pa.las/ | empalât /ɑ̃.pa.la/ | empalassions /ɑ̃.pa.la.sjɔ̃/ | empalassiez /ɑ̃.pa.la.sje/ | empalassent /ɑ̃.pa.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | empale /ɑ̃.pal/ | — | empalons /ɑ̃.pa.lɔ̃/ | empalez /ɑ̃.pa.le/ | — | |
| 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
- empaleur
- pal
Further reading
- “empaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- Palerme