empeser
French
Etymology
From Old French empoise (“weight”), from Latin impensa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pə.ze/
Verb
empeser
- to starch
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 empèse rather than *il empese. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of empeser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | empeser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | empesant /ɑ̃p.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | empesé /ɑ̃p.ze/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/ | empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/ | empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
imperfect | empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ | empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ | empesait /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ | empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/ | empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/ | empesaient /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | empesai /ɑ̃p.ze/ | empesas /ɑ̃p.za/ | empesa /ɑ̃p.za/ | empesâmes /ɑ̃p.zam/ | empesâtes /ɑ̃p.zat/ | empesèrent /ɑ̃p.zɛʁ/ | |
future | empèserai /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/ | empèseras /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/ | empèsera /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/ | empèserons /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ | empèserez /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/ | empèseront /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ | empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ | empèserait /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ | empèserions /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | empèseriez /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.pe.zə.ʁje/ | empèseraient /ɑ̃.pɛz.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 | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/ | empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/ | empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
imperfect2 | empesasse /ɑ̃p.zas/ | empesasses /ɑ̃p.zas/ | empesât /ɑ̃p.za/ | empesassions /ɑ̃p.za.sjɔ̃/ | empesassiez /ɑ̃p.za.sje/ | empesassent /ɑ̃p.zas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ | — | empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/ | empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/ | — | |
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). |
Derived terms
- empois
Further reading
- “empeser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.