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

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• IPA^(key): /e.mu.vwaʁ/
• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

émouvoir

1. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Related terms

• émotion
• ému
• émouvant
• mouvoir

Further reading

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