imbriquer
French
Etymology
From Latin imbrico.
Pronunciation
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Verb
imbriquer
- to imbricate
- to nest one within another
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be interlinked, to be closely linked
Conjugation
Conjugation of imbriquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | imbriquer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | imbriquant /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | imbriqué /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | imbriques /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | imbriquons /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɔ̃/ | imbriquez /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/ | imbriquent /ɛ̃.bʁik/ |
imperfect | imbriquais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/ | imbriquais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/ | imbriquait /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/ | imbriquions /ɛ̃.bʁi.kjɔ̃/ | imbriquiez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kje/ | imbriquaient /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | imbriquai /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/ | imbriquas /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka/ | imbriqua /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka/ | imbriquâmes /ɛ̃.bʁi.kam/ | imbriquâtes /ɛ̃.bʁi.kat/ | imbriquèrent /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛʁ/ | |
future | imbriquerai /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁe/ | imbriqueras /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁa/ | imbriquera /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁa/ | imbriquerons /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/ | imbriquerez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁe/ | imbriqueront /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | imbriquerais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | imbriquerais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | imbriquerait /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | imbriquerions /ɛ̃.bʁi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | imbriqueriez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kə.ʁje/ | imbriqueraient /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/ | |
(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 | imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | imbriques /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | imbriquions /ɛ̃.bʁi.kjɔ̃/ | imbriquiez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kje/ | imbriquent /ɛ̃.bʁik/ |
imperfect2 | imbriquasse /ɛ̃.bʁi.kas/ | imbriquasses /ɛ̃.bʁi.kas/ | imbriquât /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka/ | imbriquassions /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/ | imbriquassiez /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka.sje/ | imbriquassent /ɛ̃.bʁi.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/ | — | imbriquons /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɔ̃/ | imbriquez /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/ | — | |
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). |
Further reading
- “imbriquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.