émacier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin emaciāre (“to emaciate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ma.sje/

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Verb

émacier

1. (transitive) to make someone emaciated, to emaciate someone
2. (reflexive) to become emaciated

   Il s’a émacié pendant la famine. ― He had become emaciated during the famine.

Conjugation

Conjugation of émacier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émacier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émaciant /e.ma.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émacié /e.ma.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émacie /e.ma.si/	émacies /e.ma.si/	émacie /e.ma.si/	émacions /e.ma.sjɔ̃/	émaciez /e.ma.sje/	émacient /e.ma.si/
	imperfect	émaciais /e.ma.sjɛ/	émaciais /e.ma.sjɛ/	émaciait /e.ma.sjɛ/	émaciions /e.ma.si.jɔ̃/	émaciiez /e.ma.si.je/	émaciaient /e.ma.sjɛ/
	past historic2	émaciai /e.ma.sje/	émacias /e.ma.sja/	émacia /e.ma.sja/	émaciâmes /e.ma.sjam/	émaciâtes /e.ma.sjat/	émacièrent /e.ma.sjɛʁ/
	future	émacierai /e.ma.si.ʁe/	émacieras /e.ma.si.ʁa/	émaciera /e.ma.si.ʁa/	émacierons /e.ma.si.ʁɔ̃/	émacierez /e.ma.si.ʁe/	émacieront /e.ma.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émacierais /e.ma.si.ʁɛ/	émacierais /e.ma.si.ʁɛ/	émacierait /e.ma.si.ʁɛ/	émacierions /e.ma.si.ʁjɔ̃/	émacieriez /e.ma.si.ʁje/	émacieraient /e.ma.si.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	émacie /e.ma.si/	émacies /e.ma.si/	émacie /e.ma.si/	émaciions /e.ma.si.jɔ̃/	émaciiez /e.ma.si.je/	émacient /e.ma.si/
	imperfect2	émaciasse /e.ma.sjas/	émaciasses /e.ma.sjas/	émaciât /e.ma.sja/	émaciassions /e.ma.sja.sjɔ̃/	émaciassiez /e.ma.sja.sje/	émaciassent /e.ma.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émacie /e.ma.si/	—	émacions /e.ma.sjɔ̃/	émaciez /e.ma.sje/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Synonyms

• amaigrir

Derived terms

• émaciation
• émacié
• émaciement

Related terms

• maigrir

Further reading

• “émacier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.