imbiber

English

Etymology

imbibe +‎ -er

Noun

imbiber (plural imbibers)

1. one who imbibes, who drinks, especially alcoholic beverages.

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French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin imbibere, present active infinitive of imbibō, from in- + bibō (“I drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.bi.be/

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Verb

imbiber

1. (transitive) to soak, saturate

Conjugation

Conjugation of imbiber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	imbiber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	imbibant /ɛ̃.bi.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		imbibé /ɛ̃.bi.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/	imbibes /ɛ̃.bib/	imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/	imbibons /ɛ̃.bi.bɔ̃/	imbibez /ɛ̃.bi.be/	imbibent /ɛ̃.bib/
	imperfect	imbibais /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/	imbibais /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/	imbibait /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/	imbibions /ɛ̃.bi.bjɔ̃/	imbibiez /ɛ̃.bi.bje/	imbibaient /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/
	past historic2	imbibai /ɛ̃.bi.be/	imbibas /ɛ̃.bi.ba/	imbiba /ɛ̃.bi.ba/	imbibâmes /ɛ̃.bi.bam/	imbibâtes /ɛ̃.bi.bat/	imbibèrent /ɛ̃.bi.bɛʁ/
	future	imbiberai /ɛ̃.bi.bʁe/	imbiberas /ɛ̃.bi.bʁa/	imbibera /ɛ̃.bi.bʁa/	imbiberons /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɔ̃/	imbiberez /ɛ̃.bi.bʁe/	imbiberont /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	imbiberais /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/	imbiberais /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/	imbiberait /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/	imbiberions /ɛ̃.bi.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	imbiberiez /ɛ̃.bi.bə.ʁje/	imbiberaient /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/
(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	imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/	imbibes /ɛ̃.bib/	imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/	imbibions /ɛ̃.bi.bjɔ̃/	imbibiez /ɛ̃.bi.bje/	imbibent /ɛ̃.bib/
	imperfect2	imbibasse /ɛ̃.bi.bas/	imbibasses /ɛ̃.bi.bas/	imbibât /ɛ̃.bi.ba/	imbibassions /ɛ̃.bi.ba.sjɔ̃/	imbibassiez /ɛ̃.bi.ba.sje/	imbibassent /ɛ̃.bi.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/	—	imbibons /ɛ̃.bi.bɔ̃/	imbibez /ɛ̃.bi.be/	—
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

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