émietter
French
Etymology
é- + miette + -er
Pronunciation
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Verb
émietter
- to crumble (make into crumbs)
- (figuratively) to eat away (at)
- (reflexive) to crumble; to whittle away
Conjugation
Conjugation of émietter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | émietter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | émiettant /e.mjɛ.tɑ̃/ or /e.mje.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | émietté /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | émiette /e.mjɛt/ | émiettes /e.mjɛt/ | émiette /e.mjɛt/ | émiettons /e.mjɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tɔ̃/ | émiettez /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/ | émiettent /e.mjɛt/ |
| imperfect | émiettais /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/ | émiettais /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/ | émiettait /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/ | émiettions /e.mjɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tjɔ̃/ | émiettiez /e.mjɛ.tje/ or /e.mje.tje/ | émiettaient /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | émiettai /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/ | émiettas /e.mjɛ.ta/ or /e.mje.ta/ | émietta /e.mjɛ.ta/ or /e.mje.ta/ | émiettâmes /e.mjɛ.tam/ or /e.mje.tam/ | émiettâtes /e.mjɛ.tat/ or /e.mje.tat/ | émiettèrent /e.mjɛ.tɛʁ/ or /e.mje.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | émietterai /e.mjɛ.tʁe/ or /e.mje.tʁe/ | émietteras /e.mjɛ.tʁa/ or /e.mje.tʁa/ | émiettera /e.mjɛ.tʁa/ or /e.mje.tʁa/ | émietterons /e.mjɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tʁɔ̃/ | émietterez /e.mjɛ.tʁe/ or /e.mje.tʁe/ | émietteront /e.mjɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | émietterais /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/ | émietterais /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/ | émietterait /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/ | émietterions /e.mjɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | émietteriez /e.mjɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /e.mje.tə.ʁje/ | émietteraient /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | émiette /e.mjɛt/ | émiettes /e.mjɛt/ | émiette /e.mjɛt/ | émiettions /e.mjɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tjɔ̃/ | émiettiez /e.mjɛ.tje/ or /e.mje.tje/ | émiettent /e.mjɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | émiettasse /e.mjɛ.tas/ or /e.mje.tas/ | émiettasses /e.mjɛ.tas/ or /e.mje.tas/ | émiettât /e.mjɛ.ta/ or /e.mje.ta/ | émiettassions /e.mjɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.ta.sjɔ̃/ | émiettassiez /e.mjɛ.ta.sje/ or /e.mje.ta.sje/ | émiettassent /e.mjɛ.tas/ or /e.mje.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | émiette /e.mjɛt/ | — | émiettons /e.mjɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tɔ̃/ | émiettez /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/ | — | |
| 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
- “émietter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.