empester

French

Etymology

em- +‎ peste +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/

Verb

empester

1. (transitive) to infect with a pest or with a contagious disease
2. (transitive) to cause to stink, to cause to reek (of)
3. (intransitive) to stink, reek of

Conjugation

Conjugation of empester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empestant /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empesté /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/	empestes /ɑ̃.pɛst/	empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/	empestons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɔ̃/	empestez /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/	empestent /ɑ̃.pɛst/
	imperfect	empestais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/	empestais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/	empestait /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/	empestions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tjɔ̃/	empestiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tje/	empestaient /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	empestai /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/	empestas /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/	empesta /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/	empestâmes /ɑ̃.pɛs.tam/	empestâtes /ɑ̃.pɛs.tat/	empestèrent /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	empesterai /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁe/	empesteras /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁa/	empestera /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁa/	empesterons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	empesterez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁe/	empesteront /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empesterais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	empesterais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	empesterait /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	empesterions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	empesteriez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁje/	empesteraient /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.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	empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/	empestes /ɑ̃.pɛst/	empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/	empestions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tjɔ̃/	empestiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tje/	empestent /ɑ̃.pɛst/
	imperfect2	empestasse /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/	empestasses /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/	empestât /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/	empestassions /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	empestassiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta.sje/	empestassent /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/	—	empestons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɔ̃/	empestez /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/	—
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

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