émouvoir
French
Etymology
From Middle French esmouvoir, from Old French esmouvoir, esmovoir, esmoveir, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre, from Latin ēmovēre, present active infinitive of ēmoveō. Compare Italian smuovere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.mu.vwaʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
émouvoir
- to move emotionally; to touch
Conjugation
Conjugation of émouvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | émouvoir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | émouvant /e.mu.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ému /e.my/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | émeus /e.mø/ | émeus /e.mø/ | émeut /e.mø/ | émouvons /e.mu.vɔ̃/ | émouvez /e.mu.ve/ | émeuvent /e.mœv/ |
| imperfect | émouvais /e.mu.vɛ/ | émouvais /e.mu.vɛ/ | émouvait /e.mu.vɛ/ | émouvions /e.mu.vjɔ̃/ | émouviez /e.mu.vje/ | émouvaient /e.mu.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | émus /e.my/ | émus /e.my/ | émut /e.my/ | émûmes /e.mym/ | émûtes /e.myt/ | émurent /e.myʁ/ | |
| future | émouvrai /e.mu.vʁe/ | émouvras /e.mu.vʁa/ | émouvra /e.mu.vʁa/ | émouvrons /e.mu.vʁɔ̃/ | émouvrez /e.mu.vʁe/ | émouvront /e.mu.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | émouvrais /e.mu.vʁɛ/ | émouvrais /e.mu.vʁɛ/ | émouvrait /e.mu.vʁɛ/ | émouvrions /e.mu.vʁi.jɔ̃/ | émouvriez /e.mu.vʁi.je/ | émouvraient /e.mu.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | émeuve /e.mœv/ | émeuves /e.mœv/ | émeuve /e.mœv/ | émouvions /e.mu.vjɔ̃/ | émouviez /e.mu.vje/ | émeuvent /e.mœv/ |
| imperfect2 | émusse /e.mys/ | émusses /e.mys/ | émût /e.my/ | émussions /e.my.sjɔ̃/ | émussiez /e.my.sje/ | émussent /e.mys/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | émeus /e.mø/ | — | émouvons /e.mu.vɔ̃/ | émouvez /e.mu.ve/ | — | |
| 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
- émotion
- ému
- émouvant
- mouvoir
Further reading
- “émouvoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.