embobiner
French
Etymology
en- + bobine (“reel, spool”) + -er
Pronunciation
Verb
embobiner
- (transitive) to wind up, reel up
- (transitive) to wrap up
- une mouche embobinée dans une toile d’araignée
- a fly wrapped up in a spider's web
- (colloquial, transitive) reel in
Conjugation
Conjugation of embobiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | embobiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | embobinant /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | embobiné /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
embobines /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
embobinons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɔ̃/ |
embobinez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ |
embobinent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
| imperfect | embobinais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ |
embobinais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ |
embobinait /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ |
embobinions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.njɔ̃/ |
embobiniez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nje/ |
embobinaient /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | embobinai /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ |
embobinas /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/ |
embobina /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/ |
embobinâmes /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nam/ |
embobinâtes /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nat/ |
embobinèrent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | embobinerai /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁe/ |
embobineras /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁa/ |
embobinera /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁa/ |
embobinerons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɔ̃/ |
embobinerez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁe/ |
embobineront /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | embobinerais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/ |
embobinerais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/ |
embobinerait /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/ |
embobinerions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
embobineriez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nə.ʁje/ |
embobineraient /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.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 | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
embobines /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
embobinions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.njɔ̃/ |
embobiniez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nje/ |
embobinent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
| imperfect2 | embobinasse /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/ |
embobinasses /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/ |
embobinât /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/ |
embobinassions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
embobinassiez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na.sje/ |
embobinassent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/ |
— | embobinons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɔ̃/ |
embobinez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “embobiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.