empaler

English

Noun

empaler (plural empalers)

1. Obsolete form of impaler.

Anagrams

• empearl, premeal

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French empaler, from Late Latin impālāre, from Latin pālus. By surface analysis, en- +‎ pal +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pa.le/

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Verb

empaler

1. (transitive) to impale

Conjugation

Conjugation of empaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empalant /ɑ̃.pa.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empalé /ɑ̃.pa.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empale /ɑ̃.pal/	empales /ɑ̃.pal/	empale /ɑ̃.pal/	empalons /ɑ̃.pa.lɔ̃/	empalez /ɑ̃.pa.le/	empalent /ɑ̃.pal/
	imperfect	empalais /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/	empalais /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/	empalait /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/	empalions /ɑ̃.pa.ljɔ̃/	empaliez /ɑ̃.pa.lje/	empalaient /ɑ̃.pa.lɛ/
	past historic2	empalai /ɑ̃.pa.le/	empalas /ɑ̃.pa.la/	empala /ɑ̃.pa.la/	empalâmes /ɑ̃.pa.lam/	empalâtes /ɑ̃.pa.lat/	empalèrent /ɑ̃.pa.lɛʁ/
	future	empalerai /ɑ̃.pal.ʁe/	empaleras /ɑ̃.pal.ʁa/	empalera /ɑ̃.pal.ʁa/	empalerons /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɔ̃/	empalerez /ɑ̃.pal.ʁe/	empaleront /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empalerais /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɛ/	empalerais /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɛ/	empalerait /ɑ̃.pal.ʁɛ/	empalerions /ɑ̃.pa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	empaleriez /ɑ̃.pa.lə.ʁje/	empaleraient /ɑ̃.pal.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	empale /ɑ̃.pal/	empales /ɑ̃.pal/	empale /ɑ̃.pal/	empalions /ɑ̃.pa.ljɔ̃/	empaliez /ɑ̃.pa.lje/	empalent /ɑ̃.pal/
	imperfect2	empalasse /ɑ̃.pa.las/	empalasses /ɑ̃.pa.las/	empalât /ɑ̃.pa.la/	empalassions /ɑ̃.pa.la.sjɔ̃/	empalassiez /ɑ̃.pa.la.sje/	empalassent /ɑ̃.pa.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empale /ɑ̃.pal/	—	empalons /ɑ̃.pa.lɔ̃/	empalez /ɑ̃.pa.le/	—
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).

Derived terms

• empaleur
• empalement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Palerme