emmurer

French

Etymology

en- +‎ mur +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.my.ʁe/

Verb

emmurer

1. (transitive) to immure

Conjugation

Conjugation of emmurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emmurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	emmurant /ɑ̃.my.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		emmuré /ɑ̃.my.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	emmure /ɑ̃.myʁ/	emmures /ɑ̃.myʁ/	emmure /ɑ̃.myʁ/	emmurons /ɑ̃.my.ʁɔ̃/	emmurez /ɑ̃.my.ʁe/	emmurent /ɑ̃.myʁ/
	imperfect	emmurais /ɑ̃.my.ʁɛ/	emmurais /ɑ̃.my.ʁɛ/	emmurait /ɑ̃.my.ʁɛ/	emmurions /ɑ̃.my.ʁjɔ̃/	emmuriez /ɑ̃.my.ʁje/	emmuraient /ɑ̃.my.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	emmurai /ɑ̃.my.ʁe/	emmuras /ɑ̃.my.ʁa/	emmura /ɑ̃.my.ʁa/	emmurâmes /ɑ̃.my.ʁam/	emmurâtes /ɑ̃.my.ʁat/	emmurèrent /ɑ̃.my.ʁɛʁ/
	future	emmurerai /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁe/	emmureras /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁa/	emmurera /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁa/	emmurerons /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	emmurerez /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁe/	emmureront /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	emmurerais /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁɛ/	emmurerais /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁɛ/	emmurerait /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁɛ/	emmurerions /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	emmureriez /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.ʁje/	emmureraient /ɑ̃.my.ʁə.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	emmure /ɑ̃.myʁ/	emmures /ɑ̃.myʁ/	emmure /ɑ̃.myʁ/	emmurions /ɑ̃.my.ʁjɔ̃/	emmuriez /ɑ̃.my.ʁje/	emmurent /ɑ̃.myʁ/
	imperfect2	emmurasse /ɑ̃.my.ʁas/	emmurasses /ɑ̃.my.ʁas/	emmurât /ɑ̃.my.ʁa/	emmurassions /ɑ̃.my.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	emmurassiez /ɑ̃.my.ʁa.sje/	emmurassent /ɑ̃.my.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	emmure /ɑ̃.myʁ/	—	emmurons /ɑ̃.my.ʁɔ̃/	emmurez /ɑ̃.my.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• emmurement

Further reading

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