alambiquer

French

Etymology

From alambic.

Pronunciation

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Verb

alambiquer

1. to distill
2. to refine

Conjugation

Conjugation of alambiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alambiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alambiquant /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alambiqué /a.lɑ̃.bi.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alambique /a.lɑ̃.bik/	alambiques /a.lɑ̃.bik/	alambique /a.lɑ̃.bik/	alambiquons /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɔ̃/	alambiquez /a.lɑ̃.bi.ke/	alambiquent /a.lɑ̃.bik/
	imperfect	alambiquais /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɛ/	alambiquais /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɛ/	alambiquait /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɛ/	alambiquions /a.lɑ̃.bi.kjɔ̃/	alambiquiez /a.lɑ̃.bi.kje/	alambiquaient /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɛ/
	past historic2	alambiquai /a.lɑ̃.bi.ke/	alambiquas /a.lɑ̃.bi.ka/	alambiqua /a.lɑ̃.bi.ka/	alambiquâmes /a.lɑ̃.bi.kam/	alambiquâtes /a.lɑ̃.bi.kat/	alambiquèrent /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɛʁ/
	future	alambiquerai /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁe/	alambiqueras /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁa/	alambiquera /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁa/	alambiquerons /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁɔ̃/	alambiquerez /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁe/	alambiqueront /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alambiquerais /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁɛ/	alambiquerais /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁɛ/	alambiquerait /a.lɑ̃.bi.kʁɛ/	alambiquerions /a.lɑ̃.bi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	alambiqueriez /a.lɑ̃.bi.kə.ʁje/	alambiqueraient /a.lɑ̃.bi.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	alambique /a.lɑ̃.bik/	alambiques /a.lɑ̃.bik/	alambique /a.lɑ̃.bik/	alambiquions /a.lɑ̃.bi.kjɔ̃/	alambiquiez /a.lɑ̃.bi.kje/	alambiquent /a.lɑ̃.bik/
	imperfect2	alambiquasse /a.lɑ̃.bi.kas/	alambiquasses /a.lɑ̃.bi.kas/	alambiquât /a.lɑ̃.bi.ka/	alambiquassions /a.lɑ̃.bi.ka.sjɔ̃/	alambiquassiez /a.lɑ̃.bi.ka.sje/	alambiquassent /a.lɑ̃.bi.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alambique /a.lɑ̃.bik/	—	alambiquons /a.lɑ̃.bi.kɔ̃/	alambiquez /a.lɑ̃.bi.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: 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).

Further reading

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