imbriquer

French

Etymology

Back-formation from imbriqué.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/

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Verb

imbriquer

1. (transitive) to imbricate
2. (transitive) to nest one within another
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be interlinked, to be closely linked

Conjugation

Conjugation of imbriquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	imbriquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	imbriquant /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		imbriqué /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/	imbriques /ɛ̃.bʁik/	imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/	imbriquons /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɔ̃/	imbriquez /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/	imbriquent /ɛ̃.bʁik/
	imperfect	imbriquais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/	imbriquais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/	imbriquait /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/	imbriquions /ɛ̃.bʁi.kjɔ̃/	imbriquiez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kje/	imbriquaient /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛ/
	past historic2	imbriquai /ɛ̃.bʁi.ke/	imbriquas /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka/	imbriqua /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka/	imbriquâmes /ɛ̃.bʁi.kam/	imbriquâtes /ɛ̃.bʁi.kat/	imbriquèrent /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɛʁ/
	future	imbriquerai /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁe/	imbriqueras /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁa/	imbriquera /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁa/	imbriquerons /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/	imbriquerez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁe/	imbriqueront /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	imbriquerais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/	imbriquerais /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/	imbriquerait /ɛ̃.bʁi.kʁɛ/	imbriquerions /ɛ̃.bʁi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	imbriqueriez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kə.ʁje/	imbriqueraient /ɛ̃.bʁi.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	imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/	imbriques /ɛ̃.bʁik/	imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/	imbriquions /ɛ̃.bʁi.kjɔ̃/	imbriquiez /ɛ̃.bʁi.kje/	imbriquent /ɛ̃.bʁik/
	imperfect2	imbriquasse /ɛ̃.bʁi.kas/	imbriquasses /ɛ̃.bʁi.kas/	imbriquât /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka/	imbriquassions /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/	imbriquassiez /ɛ̃.bʁi.ka.sje/	imbriquassent /ɛ̃.bʁi.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	imbrique /ɛ̃.bʁik/	—	imbriquons /ɛ̃.bʁi.kɔ̃/	imbriquez /ɛ̃.bʁi.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

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